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Climate change: 2023 hottest year since records began

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German court rules federal government violated climate law

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Loss and damage

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Rising temperatures are leading to increasingly extreme weather events, most impacting countries that have contributed least to warming. They have long called for a designated fund to compensate for loss and damage.

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Loss and damage: Who pays for climate change?

Climate financing: which funds are the most promising, what do they actually cover, and why is it all so contentious?

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COP28 launches climate 'loss and damage' fund

The fund has long been a request from nations vulnerable to the impact of global warming.

What are the key fights that will dominate UN climate talks?

After a year of record temperatures, oil giant UAE is hosting the UN climate summit to stave off climate catastrophe.

Storm aftermath sees massive flooding, broken roads

Climate adaptation funds woefully inadequate, says UN

A gap in climate adaptation finance of up to $366 billion a year is leaving the world exposed to weather extremes.

African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson, Moussa Faki Mahamat, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and Senegal's President Macky Sall attend the Africa Climate Summit

African leaders call for fairer climate financing

At Africa's first climate summit, leaders are calling for fairer ways to finance the world's response to climate change.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang (R) shakes hands with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

Yellen urges US and China to cooperate on climate financing

As the two largest emitters of greenhouse gasses, Yellen stressed the urgency for the US and China to work together.

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Firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire burning at the Dadia National Park in the region of Evros

Climate: What is the global stocktake?

At key climate talks in Dubai, the world's first global climate progress report will set the agenda.

Chinese flags flutter in front of chimneys from a coal-fired power station

Is China a climate hero or a fossil fuel baddie?

Is China revolutionizing the energy transition, or are its fossil ambitions unstoppable?

New climate disaster fund offers hope to poorer countries

A loss and damage fund to help climate-vulnerable nations, long-contested, has been launched at climate talks in Dubai.

A man walks with a camel carrying his goods in an area 30 kilometers from the city of Gode, Ethiopia

Greenhouse gases continue to rise as warming hits record

As countries meet in Dubai for climate talks to negotiate emissions reductions, the world is warming faster than ever.

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Climate lies ramp up ahead of crucial climate talks in Dubai

A resurgent echo chamber of online climate disinformation is set to muddy efforts to cut emissions in the UAE.

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Net zero by 2050: 9 charts showing the world's progress

The pressure is on for leaders at the 28th climate conference to prevent global warming from accelerating further.