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Simon Stiell laments 'side-stepping and stalling', as latest round of climate talks end in deadlock on key issues surrounding adaptation, climate finance, and emissions-reduction plans

Oxford University finds city in southern Iraq is the world's most vulnerable to extreme temperatures, Kenya receives landmark climate funding, and the UN releases third World Ocean Assessment

UN Climate Summit co-hosts Türkiye and Australia unveil plans for three new collective global goals they hope to secure at COP31 Summit

Turkish Minister Murat Kurum backs global push to deploy electric technologies that can curb fossil fuel use, hinting measures to boost electrification could be top priority at November's UN climate talks

Simon Stiell highlights 'immense irony' that some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel proponents are now ‘inadvertently supercharging the global renewables boom’

France unveils plan at presented at Santa Marta Conference that targets an end to coal use by 2030, before phasing out oil by 2045, and gas for energy purposes by 2050

Ahead of meeting to advance plans for global roadmap away from fossil fuels, more than 250 legal experts claim 'multiple sources of international law' place obligation on governments to phase out fossil fuels and prevent climate harm

UNFCC executive secretary argues 'climate cooperation is key to fending off the twin-reapers of global heating and fossil fuel cost chaos'

Carbon Tracker analysis released ahead of key climate summit underscores how developing economies stand to benefit from accelerated clean tech roll out

COP31 President-Designate Murat Kurum urges countries to find 'common ground' at this year's UN Climate Summit and deliver on goal of building a 'more secure global economy'

UNFCCC's Simon Stiell's Istanbul speech setting out the priorities for COP31 - in full

Simon Stiell stresses climate action is 'indisputably' in every nation's self-interest, as he warns those shirking leadership are gifting a 'goldmine' to rivals

While wind and solar energy led in investments globally, liquefied natural gas is also booming - Germany's former climate envoy Jennifer Morgan offers hew view of what's coming and the countries to watch