The owner of the Danish butter brand announced a trial aimed at tackling climate-heating methane emissions produced by cows during digestion.

The review aims to support millions of small UK businesses to boost their bottom line through greener practices.

The Government needs to take action to support the industry to transition to cage-free eggs, campaigners have urged.

Negotiations at Cop29 in Baku, Azerbaijan were scheduled to finish on Friday evening but a final deal on climate finance remains elusive.

The Energy Secretary said the UK’s pledge to cut domestic emissions by 81% by 2035 had put ‘Britain back on the map of global climate leadership’.

Frustrations intensified at Cop29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, where countries are polarised over a deal on paying poorer nations climate finance.

The money will go to countries like Colombia and Indonesia to support vital global ‘carbon sinks’.

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said ‘failure is not an option’ as countries remain deeply divided and the clock ticks down at Cop29.

Tensions at Cop29 in Baku intensified on Thursday after backlash against the latest proposals on a global climate agreement.

Dozens of fellow academics have called for the release of the London School of Economics professor Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu detained in Azerbaijan.

Activists at Cop29 said healthy ecosystems served as ‘cost-effective climate solutions that urgently need dedicated funding’.

The Cop29 presidency of Azerbaijan asked both the UK and Brazil to ensure the delivery of ‘a balanced set of negotiated outcomes’ at the Baku summit.

The UK has joined a cross-country group as UN climate negotiations continue in Azerbaijan.

Leaders of the world’s biggest economies confirmed their support to shift more cash to developing countries to help them cope with climate change.

Mukhtar Babayev urged governments to ‘work together’ to solve key political issues causing a deadlock at the UN climate talks in Baku.

The slender-billed curlew could be the first known global bird extinction from mainland Europe, north Africa and west Asia.

UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan on Sunday to join other government ministers for the second week of the UN climate summit.

Countries that do not support fossil energy phase out should not host future summits, scientists, advocates and policy experts said.

The money comes under the UK’s existing pledge to spend £11.6 billion in climate finance over five years up to 2026.

As world leaders met at Cop29, UN-appointed experts said countries must ramp up climate finance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.