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Deeply underpowered current national climate plans will lead to ‘human and economic trainwreck for every country, without exception’, UNFCCC head warns

Panel details steps governments and industry can take to 'tap the potential of the energy transition', while ensuring critical mineral value chains adhere to best practices

Lakes, rivers, and aquifers degrading in half of world’s countries, putting the health and livelihoods of billions of people under threat, UN warns

Latest round of UN talks to finalise treaty to end plastic pollution worldwide draw to a close in Ottawa with pockets of progress but much still to play for

New report from charity warns of increased reliance on supply chains that have been accused of human rights failings

The world’s biggest economies may have signed up to the Breakthrough Agenda two years ago, but critical clean technologies are still struggling to break through

New Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT) and Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) tool aims to track low-carbon cement investments

Plus EU proposes Energy Charter Treaty exit, UN issues SDG warning, and all the top green business news from around the world this week

Last week's crunch talks were on the 'brink of chaos', but on Friday 170 nations agreed to draw up an initial first draft of a global plastic pollution treaty by November

More than 100 companies and experts involved in the emerging carbon removals market write to UNFCCC in dismay over briefing note raising concerns over viability such technologies