Politics

The US midterms were a good night for global climate action, and they might just herald an end to the latest outbreak of self-defeating climate denialism

New polling suggests growing numbers of Brits see renewables as a 'credible shield' from insecurity and are keen to support new community energy projects

Government urged to honour COP26 promise to require large companies and financial institutions to publish climate transition plans

Results deliver a stinging rebuke to the Trump White House, as campaigners hail victories for 'climate and clean energy champions'

All the top reaction from diplomats, businesses, environmental groups, and nature experts to the hard-fought final agreement at the COP17 UN Biodiversity Summit in Yerevan

Decisions reached on nature finance, tackling harmful subsidies, and halting biodiversity loss after fraught negotiations in Yerevan, but fears remain progress towards global targets remains far too slow

Review of climate risk disclosures from 31 public bodies reveals a 'mixed picture' when it comes to tackling escalating climate-related threats

Closing plenary gets under way in Armenia despite deep divisions on contentious issues surrounding biodiversity funding, nature-harming subsidies, scientific evidence, and nature genetics

Middle East crisis helps fossil fuel giants more than double year-on-year profits, which campaigners decry as a 'kick in the teeth' for UK billpayers

World witnessing 'the makings of one of the largest movements for nature in recorded history’, but system-wide action still needed to rescue flagship goals, according to UN report