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Throughout the UN climate conference in Glasgow, and its build-up, openDemocracy will be writing about the climate politics of countries around the world. Check back for regular updates, and get these sent directly to your inbox as part of our COP newsletter.

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The Brexit dark money lobby has a new target – climate change action

Revealing Johnson’s talks with BP not ‘in public interest’, UK government says

We need far more radical thinking than any COP26 deal to save the planet

COP26: How the UK started the climate crisis

BP paid ex-MI6 spy firm to snoop on green campaigners

COP26: Why many are sceptical of politicians’ $19bn pledge to save the Amazon

Tory MP calling for delay to UK climate action has banked £150k from oil firm

British MPs urge privacy watchdog to investigate BP for ‘political spying’

43 Lords have financial interests in fossil fuel industry

Greenland’s government bans oil drilling, leads indigenous resistance to extractive capitalism

Oil industry bigwigs given platform at COP26 despite organisers’ claims

It’s time for the renewables industry to get dirty

The Christian Right is why the US won’t deliver on climate change

Mark Carney likes to talk green, but he’s just another agent of the status quo

Climate change is killing Libya’s honey bees

Egypt’s desertification is ruining fields, cutting crops and displacing farmers

Climate action is Nigeria’s chance to free itself from the tyranny of oil

How to make COP26 a success? Talk about plastics

The far Right has moved from climate denial to obstructing climate action

Sport must accept its role in the climate crisis and change its game

Tackling climate breakdown and delivering economic justice must go hand in hand

It’s time to issue climate reparations to working-class people around the world

From Paris to Glasgow: fossil fuel interests continue to block climate action

Costa Rica: Latin America’s climate champion

Barbados: the small but mighty force for climate action

What can we expect from Russia at COP26?

Forget tulips and windmills, the Netherlands is the dirty old man of Europe

Bolsonaro’s empty climate promises for Brazil

Glasgow’s COP26 is crunch time to save the world from disaster

Will climate change stop Arabia from being Saudi?

Joe Biden is in no position to lecture the world on climate change

Why do Hungary’s climate change-fearing voters keep electing Viktor Orbán?

EU fails to reduce dependency on fossil fuels amid soaring energy bills

Mexico once led the way on climate policies. Now, it has taken a step backwards

If we lose the Amazon, our world will lose its future

To help Indigenous people in Brazil, let’s challenge our own violence

Coca farming is destroying Peru’s Amazon. Is it time for a radical solution?

The Global North caused the climate crisis. Now is the time to pay its dues

Keir Starmer blanked me at Labour conference, but we can’t ignore the climate crisis

Climate activists have transformed German politics

Protecting 30% of the Earth by 2030 would threaten Indigenous peoples

How to shop without costing the Earth

Is China taking climate change more seriously than the West?