The EU climate agency says the planet is facing its first year in which temperatures will rise more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.

While the United States – the largest economy in the world – has just elected a leader who calls climate change a “hoax.”

It is no surprise, then, that the prospect of a second Trump term will loom large during next week’s COP29 summit.

We were in Valencia, where people whose lives have just been shattered by catastrophic flooding are wondering whether those in power are taking the threat seriously.