COP Climate Summit

Once again, fossil fuels muscled in to the world’s most important climate negotiation, sidelining critical issues about people and the future of our planet

Oil firms present at COP summits made $2.6 trillion profits since the Paris Agreement – enough to pay half the cost of climate damage in poor countries

Jude Law, Mark Rylance, Aisling Bea, Peter Capaldi, Michael Shannon, George MacKay and Lily Cole are the latest celebrities to join a growing call for fossil fuel companies to be made to pay up for their role in causing climate breakdown, through the site cop29.com

Fossil fuel industry influx at COP29 escalates calls to protect talks from Big Polluters

Over 840,000 people in COP29 host country Azerbaijan live dangerously close to gas flaring pollution, new Global Witness analysis indicates

An undercover investigation reveals how the Azerbaijani petrostate used its position as host of COP29 to facilitate discussion of new fossil fuel deals at the annual UN climate conference

Fossil fuel companies, not regular people, should be the ones to pay for worsening loss and damage costs caused by the climate crisis

Following yet more revelations about fossil fuel lobbyists' influence at COP29, we're calling on COP to get on track and protect robust climate action

The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) struck a slew of deals potentially worth more than $8 billion in the year that Baku is hosting COP29 climate talks, new analysis shows

Suspicious social media accounts appear to be engaged in platform manipulation ahead of COP29

The UN's COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan will focus on climate finance and raising funds for developing countries affected by the climate crisis

Climate-vulnerable countries are pushing for a just loss and damage fund to help them recover from climate disasters. But will wealthier nations pay up?

The 28th UN climate summit leaves us, for the first time, with an agreement to transition away from fossil fuels. Yet the failure to agree a phase-out ignores the science and sends a signal to polluters that governments may tolerate fossil fuels forever

The choices and actions taken this decade will impact us all - and future generations to come.

At least 2456 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the COP28 summit in Dubai, signalling an unprecedented presence at crucial climate talks from representatives of some of the world’s biggest polluters, according to a new analysis from the Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO) coalition

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), the fossil fuel firm ran by COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber, is on course to become the second largest oil producer in the world by 2050 – including state-run and publicly listed operators

This week, “forest first” journalism platform Sumaúma is heading to COP28 in Dubai from Altamira, Brazil. Their reporter Claudia Antunes explains why.

Join Global Witness at COP28 in Dubai and stand with those most affected by the climate crisis and push for climate action rooted in equity and justice

Carbon capture will be a hot topic at this year’s COP28. Oil and gas companies say it’s a solution to the climate crisis - the problem is, it doesn’t work at scale

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a catch-all term for technologies that are meant to reduce emissions and storing them underground. But for fossil fuel companies it's a get-out-of-jail-free card for continued oil and gas production

Taking into account emissions from burning the oil and gas it produces, Al-Jaber’s company, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), produced 14 times more emissions last year than it reported

The annual UN climate conference is a prime opportunity for companies to flaunt their green credentials – whether or not they actually have any

Global Witness and civil society organisations signs open letter to the EU, warning of risks of the Critical Raw Materials Act and makes recommendations to avoid further harm to planet and people in the Global South

Three quarters of polled climate scientists that regularly appear in media have experienced harassment or abuse online

Global Witness sends letter to MEPs calling for support to the Ecodesign Directive which could help phase out fossil fuel boilers in the EU by 2029. Our briefing outlines the damaging health and climate impacts of hydrogen heating and why it needs to be stopped.

Despite some progress on loss and damage, world leaders at the UN climate summit fail (once again) to agree to phase out fossil fuels. And that's probably all you need to know about the UN climate negotiations.

Our analysis revealed that even more fossil fuel lobbyists attended COP27 talks than in Glasgow last year