Alex Thomson , Chief Correspondent

It feels, indeed, like a twin track process, with the world of politicians and diplomats trying to play catch-up in a world where global capitalism senses that money, jobs, profit and The Future lie in the world of green transition.

“What on earth are we doing?” – some choice words today from one European leader at the UN’s climate summit in Azerbaijan, as developing countries warned that their survival was not “merely an option”.

We spoke to energy secretary Ed Miliband and began by asking him what he thought of Donald Trump saying climate change is a hoax.

It’s been a day of stark contrasts at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan where 80 world leaders had gathered. 

We spoke to former UN senior climate adviser Tom Rivett-Carnac.

COP29: Around $2.4 trillion annually are required, and on the face of it, those figures look screamingly, painfully, impossible. In fact, though, we are already awash with money.

Marek Marzec is a Polish stonemason who came to this country in search of work 13 years ago. He found it – in the cutting rooms of kitchen worktop suppliers.

A landmark Supreme Court judgement in June ruled that the planning application for an oil well in Surrey had been unlawful.

The RSPB launch their Birdcrime report this week. It says that the past two years have seen the highest number of rare Hen Harriers disappearing, and killed under suspicious circumstances, since records began.

Alon Pinkas was Israel’s consul general in New York and is now a columnist for the Haaretz newspaper.

One mineral is crucial for our transition to a future of green transport. Without lithium, there would be no batteries for electric vehicles.

Just outside the Cornish town of St Austell lie the vast open cast mines of a china clay industry, which is now long past its heyday. But these pits also contain some of the most important reserves of lithium in Europe, and a number of companies are now poised to exploit that.

It’s exactly a year since nearly 1,200 people were killed when Hamas stormed the border – many of whom were young people, gunned down at a music festival. 

There were prayers, there was music, and then a minute of silence when the violence first erupted here, exactly a year ago, at 6.29.

Israel is a country braced for more war. Iran has already grounded overnight flights from all its airports. It follows an intense night in both Gaza and Beirut, as Israel stepped up its offensives against the Iran-backed groups Hamas and Hezbollah.