Global Carbon Budget report finds emissions from fossil fuels will rise to another record high this year

It’s day three of Cop29 here in Baku and more global leaders will take to the stage, including Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif. The aim is to spur negotiators towards a strong deal by setting out the stark impacts of the climate crisis and the “terrible truth” brought by Spain’s Pedro Sánchez and by Mohamed Muizzu from the Maldives did just that.

The president of host nation Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev took a different tack and said his nation’s oil and gas was a “gift from God”.