Alex Thomson , Chief Correspondent

Not all of the spending decisions made today by the UK Government apply to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland because areas like education and health are devolved.

Whatever the outcome of talks at the G20 summit, some countries are still facing an existential threat – like the tiny Pacific Islands that make up the nation of Tuvalu.

The global “dash for gas” caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will accelerate climate breakdown, say experts at Egypt’s climate summit. 

If Republicans gain control of the House of Representatives in the US midterms, they will hold the financial reins and that is expected to have an impact on President Biden’s climate crisis agenda. 

The Egyptian setting for COP27 is a far cry from last year’s conference in Glasgow, and so is the mood – a looming global recession, rampant inflation and war in Europe pushing climate down the agenda at perhaps the worst possible time. 

We spoke to outgoing COP26 President Alok Sharma, who today handed over the presidency and opened the COP27 summit here in Egypt. We asked him what’s at stake.

The UN climate summit COP27 has opened in Egypt. Negotiators have agreed for the first time to formally discuss whether vulnerable countries which have already suffered loss and damage from climate change should be paid compensation by rich countries whose emissions caused the problem.

Dredging to create a new freeport at Teesside should be stopped pending an independent scientific assessment, that’s from a letter by a senior Government scientist seen by Channel 4 News. Last month this programme revealed that new scientific research showed toxic pollution could be to blame for the mass mortality of sea life along the…

More than 600 people have died in floods which have swept across Nigeria – displacing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.

In the last 50 years wildlife populations have fallen by nearly 70%. The conservation organisation the World Wildlife Fund warns that our living planet is in fact dying.

Two days after Russian missiles targeted Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities in the most intense strikes since the war began, Nato defence ministers are gathering to decide how to respond. 

The argument over a second Scottish independence referendum moved to a new battleground today – the Supreme Court.

As his missiles rained down on Ukrainian cities this morning, Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of his security council. 

Why have thousands of lobsters, crabs and other forms of marine life been mysteriously dying along the north east coast of England?

One of the promises Keir Starmer made in his speech today was to make a greener Britain.