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New report highlights 'staggering economic and social costs' of untreated wastewater and urges governments to ramp up invests that can save money and lives

Australia confirms new fossil fuel finance policy, the World Bank announces $100bn of development funding, and plans advance of e-mobility services in East Africa

New analysis reveals 75 carbon pricing regimes generated $104bn last year, with more than half of revenues going towards climate and nature-related programmes

COP29 President-Designate hails 'very productive' series of meetings, but campaign groups warn far more action needed to secure ambitious outcome on climate finance in Baku

Stephen Fry, Annie Lennox, Christiana Figueres, Forest Whitaker, and Paul Polman among those calling on G20 leaders to support global financial reforms to tackle debt and climate crises

Set of recommendations agreed for establishing global fund to support nations facing worst climate impacts, but divisions remain over the how to mobilise increasing levels of climate funding

Meeting delivers encouraging progress, but campaigners warn urgent action now needed to deliver 'taboo-busting' reforms to international financial architecture

Plus Germany unveils clean heat reforms, coal transition finance developments, and all the top green business news from around the world this week

Steelmaking was long regarded as hard to decarbonise - but a US firm claims to have developed a novel process that requires only electricity

Current trends suggest billions of people will still be reliant on harmful cooking fuel, and hundreds of millions without electricity by 2030, SDG report warns