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The UK's 'ultra rich; emit more CO2 in just under a year than someone in the poorest half of the population has emitted over the last three decades, Oxfam study claims

New electrification index highlights widening gap between countries that are accelerating their clean energy transition and those who remain reliant on costly fossil fuel

Annual UNEP Emissions Gap report warns urgent action is needed to limit the 'overshoot' beyond the 1.5C warming threshold set under the Paris Agreement

The COP31 co-hosts are still expanding coal production, while 95 per cent of coal companies lack phase-out plans, a new study has warned

International Renewable Energy Agency warns clean energy transition off track to meet global climate goals

Countries must come to COP and set out specific plans for how they will remove the barriers and make the infrastructure investments that businesses need to electrify the global economy, writes WBCSD's CEO and president Peter Bakker

Pacific island nations call on governments to place limiting global warming to 1.5C, accelerating pace of electrification, conserving oceans, and boosting climate finance at heart of COP31 talks

Simon Stiell warns of growing extreme heat threat to pregnant women and newborns as he calls for issue to be explicitly referenced in national adaptation plans worldwide

Plus: New York hails building emissions progress; Singapore launches green levy for flights; and MEPs set out their COP31 priorities, in our round up of the top green business news from around the world this week.

BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing – October part one

Countries embrace clean energy but resist cutting fossil fuel production - that fault line is now shaping the UN's first transition roadmap, due at COP31 in November

Antonio Guterres' final term as UN Secretary General is drawing to a close and we are unlikely to see such a strong and passionate advocate for climate action succeed him, writes GSCC's Ed King

Open letter to COP Presidencies welcomes proposed '35 by 35' target, but argues equitable and renewables-led policies are needed to avoid electrification becoming 'the Trojan horse of our times'