Even the few leaks that were fixed after the UN alerts amount to emissions of taking a million cars off the road. Methane, the scientific name for fossil gas, is a potent greenhouse gas, 82 times more powerful at trapping heat than CO2 over 20 years.

COP29, this year's biggest environmental conference, is now underway. Here is how leaders from around the world are coming together to advance global climate efforts.

A group of conflict-affected countries is pushing at COP29 to double financial aid to more than $20 billion a year to combat the natural disaster and security crises facing their populations, a letter seen by Reuters showed.

"You owe us!" screamed a protest banner at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan, where negotiations over how much rich nations most responsible for climate change should pay poorer ones are

Countries at the COP29 summit tried to make progress on how to raise up to $1 trillion in climate finance for the world's most vulnerable, as political tensions overshadowed the talks and Argentina on Thursday pulled its delegation from Baku.

A coalition of world leaders from industrialized nations and climate-vulnerable countries at the UN Climate Change Conference in Baku called for more ambitious climate funding on Wednesday. "Trillions of dollars are required.

The outcomes of COP16 on biodiversity may conflict with the continued climate funding fight between environmentalists and policy makers at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.