May has called on fellow Conservatives to unite behind the government’s climate plans amid backbench opposition - but her own record is mixed.

Campaigners are urging ministers to "keep the coal in the ground" as an inquiry into the Whitehaven mine begins.

The authors highlight the disproportionate impact of climate change on low-income countries, and urge richer nations to take the lead in cutting emissions.

Under Trump, pension managers couldn’t consider climate change in their investment decisions. A new executive order by Biden could change that.

A lobbying group representing large fracking companies is pressing Democrats to keep in place billions of dollars of subsidies that drillers receive.

DLA Piper, whose clients have included Shell, ExxonMobil, and BP, will provide legal services to the UN climate change summit.

Campaigners have said the findings show the group "has no authority to criticise electric cars" and is "driven by vested engine interests".

Gulf Coast communities — already contending with Covid-19, racism and lingering damage from last year's hurricanes — now face added pollution risks from the fossil fuel industry as Hurricane Ida nears amid build-out of gas export and plastic-manufacturing plants.

The criticism comes despite COP26 President Alok Sharma insisting that the summit would be an "inclusive" event, with “all voices” heard.

The ocean represents a major blind spot in efforts to tackle the climate crisis and that needs to change, argues investigative journalist and author Ian Urbina.