Despite warm words and some encouraging funding pledges, the first phase of talks in Baku have made little progress towards agreeing a new global climate finance target
Deal sealed at UNGA comes as COP29 Presidency hails 'breakthrough' in arrangements for Loss and Damage Fund
Yet Christian Aid report also warns insured climate damages figure is highly likely to be a significant underestimate
Campaign groups propose tax on fossil fuel extraction to help bridge climate funding gap through to the end of the decade
Christian Aid tots up 2023's most expensive climate disasters as it slams 'double injustice' of catastrophes costing on $400 per person on average
VIEW FROM THE COP: Corporate Leaders Group director Beverley Cornaby reflects on a busy first week at the climate talks, and what it all means for green business
Bananas, rice, tea, coffee and sugar among £8bn of UK food imports from countries struggling to cope with increasingly extreme weather, ECIU analysis finds
Barbados Prime Minister argues significant reform to global financial architecture is urgently needed if developing economies are to avoid climate disaster
Major new climate finance initiative announced on sidelines of COP28, as governments prepare to back Loss and Damage Fund and advance 'debt for nature' plans
Launch of fund as an historic breakthrough in efforts to provide climate vulnerable countries with the funding they need to tackle worsening climate impacts