Victoria Seabrook

The deal would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming but it omits any mention of the fossil fuels driving it.

Brazil is touting what could be a radical new solution to tackle deforestation, flipping the economics in favour of protecting the forest. But it needs more cash to get it off the ground.

The 2015 Fundao Dam collapse - also known as the Mariana dam disaster - resulted in flooding that devastated two nearby villages. The case was brought in the UK as company BHP was listed on the London Stock Exchange at the time of the collapse.

The Republican president has ignored the meeting of tens of thousands of people at the COP30 climate talks in Brazil, leaving the stage wide open for Democrats to swoop in and lob criticism from afar.

Here's everything you need to know about COP30 - from why it's proving controversial, to who's attending and what will be on the agenda.

"President Trump will not jeopardise our country's economic and national security to pursue vague climate goals that are killing other countries," a White House spokeswoman tells Sky News.

Fresh polling by YouGov, carried out exclusively for Sky News, finds that belief in and concern about man-made global warming remains as high as in their heyday in 2021, when the UK hosted the COP26 climate summit.

Greenhouse gas emissions have soared for decades but are now due to fall within 10 years after new pledges, the United Nations has said - though the projection takes into account promises from Joe Biden that Donald Trump has since abandoned.

Unions welcome the new plan but warn funding for training does not equate to jobs, saying they won't materialise without further investment, nor measures to revitalise the country's dwindling manufacturing capacity.

The goal is hotter and sooner than most official previous advice, and is a nod to the high chance of breaching the ambitious Paris Agreement limit. National advisers on the Climate Change Committee hope a target would kickstart efforts to make hospitals, homes, and schools more resilient.

The controls on rare earth materials used in phones and defence give Chinese President Xi Jinping more leverage in upcoming talks with US President Donald Trump. They include a measure that mimics a US restriction on exports of chip-related products to China.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch vowed to scrap the Climate Change Act to boost cheap energy and economic growth. While certain impacts of the act have worried all political parties, many warned scrapping it was the wrong answer, and businesses said it could damage the economy.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband promised to go further than the current pause, brought in amid safety concerns and public opposition. Reform Party leaders want to reintroduce fracking as a way to boost the economy.

China is the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, but is also a clean energy superpower. The regime there will be key to any global effort to tackle climate change.

India appeared to double down on Russian oil after Donald Trump criticised the relationship between the two major economies - as his frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin mounts.

The embryo was created in 1994, when the adoptive father was still a toddler. A Christian "embryo adoption" agency facilitated the donation.

The government argues the cash will boost British industry and jobs in a fast-growing market, and benefit the climate. Campaigners warn the fuels will fail to deliver.

Two thirds of the deaths would not have happened without climate change, which made temperatures in London almost 4C higher, according to the analysis.

The current heat dome is hovering across most of Europe and bringing soaring temperatures. Here, Sky News looks at how they form, whether they're becoming more common - and why scientists call heatwaves the "silent killer".

More than 40% of Europe is now in some form of drought, brewing trouble for farmers in northern Europe and firefighters in Greece, where "overtourism" is making matters worse.