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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

Net Zero Review author becomes latest figure to call for annual climate negotiations to be streamlined to help drive bolder climate action

Former UN climate head cites past efforts of slave traders to 'self-justify' their actions, as she argues history will not look kindly on oil and gas companies' continued failure to accelerate decarbonisation efforts

Raft of reports suggest global emissions are closer than ever to peaking, but a huge gap remains between national decarbonisation pathways and the cuts needed to keep temperature rises below 1.5C

UN analysis of 2030 emissions targets reveals countries have largely failed to resubmit climate plans aligned with 1.5C goal

Environment minister from small island state pips COP26 President Alok Sharma and UNFCCC's Ovais Sarmad to influential post, where he will take up the reins from Patricia Espinosa

The UK's progress on emissions reductions, climate policy, and international finance has been charted in its latest National Communication report to the UN - BusinessGreen takes a look at the key takeaways