COP29, this year's biggest environmental conference, is now underway. Here is how leaders from around the world are coming together to advance global climate efforts.

BAKU (Reuters) -World leaders are speaking at the U.N. climate summit in Baku on Tuesday where United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has told them to "pay up" to prevent climate-led humanitarian disasters.

Dozens of leaders are set to give speeches at the UN's Climate Change Conference in Azerbaijan on Tuesday, setting the tone for the two-week negotiations. Among others, UN Secretary General António Guterres is expected to speak.

The president of COP29’s host country told the UN climate conference on Tuesday that oil and gas were a “gift of god”. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev criticised “Western fake news” about the country's emissions and said nations “should not ...

By William James and Kate Abnett BAKU (Reuters) -Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev used a keynote speech at the COP29 climate summit to lash out at Western critics of his country's oil and gas industry,

Keir Starmer has confirmed the eye-watering target of slashing 81 per cent off emissions by 2035, compared to 1990 levels.