Climate change

This year's UN Climate Summit delivered a decidedly mixed bag for the green business community - BusinessGreen rounds up the main conclusions for business leaders

In the wake of Baku climate finance goal, a new study warns most industrialised nations are not paying enough towards existing climate finance targets

BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: COP29

Transport Secretary restructures Jet Zero Taskforce in a bid to revamp UK efforts to tackle aviation emissions

Landmark $300bn climate finance goal seen as a step forward following tense negotiations, but poorer nations express fury at failure to deliver a plan for ramping up climate funding

Two thirds of clothes sold in Primark in the last year made from recycled or more sustainably sourced materials, retailer's latest stocktake claims

Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary declares deal brokered in Baku is in Britain's national interest, as he warns work towards COP30 starts now

Top politicians, green groups, experts and business leaders offer their views as the gavel finally comes down on a tense and at times chaotic UN Climate Summit in Azerbaijan

Green groups have condemned the COP29 finance package as a betrayal of developing nations, but it has the potential to provide a big chunk of the trillions of dollars of climate investment the world needs

New $300bn target to be predominantly met by industrialised nations promises major boost to climate finance, but campaigners warn deal 'slammed the door in the face of developing countries'