World leaders meeting in Paris on Thursday could give poorer countries access to hundreds of billions of dollars to tackle climate change. Mia Mottley, Barbados’ first female PM, is leading the global fight for this money and tells BBC News that her tiny country urgently needs help. Poorer nations want more money because they did...Read More

Questions over a tax on global shipping and other big sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and how countries should go about setting up a loss and damage fund continue to be the subject of fierce discussion, as governments meet in Paris to prepare an overhaul of global development and climate finance. Nearly 40 heads of...Read More