COP29: Changes to our lives are certain if Starmer meets bold climate target – but a key ingredient is missing for success

Keir Starmer’s arrival at COP29, with a promise to drastically cut the UK’s carbon emissions by 81%, will be a small ray

Warming effect of jet contrails can be cut for a few pounds per ticket, says study

Tweaking the routes of a small number of planes could reduce the warming effect of contrails by half and cost less than

The Guardian quits Elon Musk’s X social media platform

The Guardian has quit the social media platform X. The news organisation announced its decision on Wednesday to stop posting from official editorial

Battle lines drawn on new climate fund despite ‘shot in the arm’ cash injection at COP29

Battle lines have been drawn between the almost 200 countries meeting in Azerbaijan as they seek to agree a new pot of

There’s already a risk COP29 will end in failure – and damage of Trump 2.0 could yet spread

World leaders who came for the start of the United Nations climate change conference COP29 in Azerbaijan are now heading home. And as

Apple sued by Which? over iCloud use – with potential payout for 40 million UK customers

Consumer rights group Which? is suing Apple for £3bn over the way it deploys the iCloud. If the lawsuit succeeds, around 40

Argentina walks away from COP29 – amid fears Trump may pull US out of Paris climate deal

Argentinian negotiators have been summoned home from global climate talks in Azerbaijan by the President Javier Milei’s government. The team were ordered to