OPEC secretary-general Haitham Al Ghais on Wednesday told the COP29 climate summit in Baku that crude oil and natural gas were a gift from God, and that global warming talks should focus on cutting emissions not picking energy sources

A new version of the draft COP29 agreement will be released at midnight in Baku, Azerbaijan, as negotiators enter the last and most difficult stage of climate change talks, warning that “it will be difficult to find common ground by the finish”.

The union said that coal burn volumes have decreased by 12 million tonnes over the past decade, but the costs have grown by a staggering R25 billion.

Mashudu Mashau says it takes about two minutes to catch a penguin, a task he does weekly to investigate sightings of injured or sickly seabirds.

Up to 72% of coral was found dead on 12 of 19 surveyed reefs in the north of the world’s largest living structure.

The Nature Conservancy, a US-based conservation nonprofit, is studying debt-for-nature swaps and blue bond sales to help protect a massive swath of southern Africa’s coastline.

Governments around the globe are ploughing billions of dollars into fossil fuel subsidies to shelter citizens from higher energy costs, but that comes at a fiscal burden, creates inefficiencies.

At its core, climate finance is about how we pay for climate action – both reducing emissions and adapting to climate impacts. But this isn’t just about distant financial transactions. Climate finance affects our daily lives in countless ways, say the authors.

Children from East Africa, where heatwaves and floods have shuttered schools in recent months, are pushing for world leaders to protect their education – and their future – at the United Nations COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan.

Climate change is a silent killer, and the WHO has warned that urgent action is “a matter of life and death”.

COP29 brings the world together amid clashing interests, hopes and concerns

Government’s renewable energy programme has brought billions in investment, decreased load shedding, and empowered black South Africans.

Climate change is affecting the way in which we’re producing food and how polluted the water we drink and the air we breathe are, but only about one in three governments pointed out the impact of climate change on their citizens’ health.

US officials touted newly announced plans Wednesday to triple nuclear energy by 2050 as a bipartisan project that could survive Donald Trump’s incoming administration.

COP29 negotiators welcomed a pledge by major development banks to lift funding to poor and middle-income countries struggling with global warming as an early boost to the two-week summit.

As the COP annual gathering rolls around again, only a quarter of the funding pledged for SA’s just energy transition has found its way into the country

An island halfway between South Africa and Antarctica, where half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed, is under threat from a fast-spreading strain of bird flu.

The creation of a UN-backed global carbon market has taken a step closer to reality with governments approving new standards for the use of credits to meet climate targets.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders at the COP29 summit on Tuesday to “pay up” to prevent climate-led humanitarian disasters, and said time was running out to limit a destructive rise in global tempera

President Aliyev accuses West of hypocrisy for criticising country’s fossil-fuel dependence while buying its oil & gas.

This year’s UN climate summit – COP29 – is being held during yet another record-breaking year of higher global temperatures, adding pressure to negotiations aimed at curbing climate change.