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EXCLUSIVE: High Level Champion for COP29 Nigar Arpadarai rejects criticism of Baku Summit, as she argues fossil fuel industries have a key role to play in tackling climate change

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

Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary asks CCC to recommend 2035 climate target and provide 'views’ on inclusion of international shipping and aviation emissions

Baku Summit presidency sets out priorities and timetable for annual climate talks in first official correspondence to governments

Next round of climate plans due under the Paris Agreement can galvanise the green economy, business leaders and mayors argue

UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell warns negotiators 'cannot afford' to reach COP29 without having made tangible progress on post-2025 goal for climate finance

Simon Stiell acknowledges warning may sound 'melodramatic', but insists time is running out to avoid catastrophic climate impacts

Next round of five-year climate plans will be 'most important climate documents produced so far this century’, Simon Stiell warns

Simon Stiell delivers speech in Baku calling for new agreements on climate finance and urging governments to stop 'hiding behind loopholes in decision texts'

With crunch climate talks' scheduled close less than 24 hours away, negotiators are still wrangling over the future of fossil fuels, finance pledges, and climate adaptation goals