Guterres and Lula to push negotiators at COP30 as deadline looms - The Washington Post
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Climate heating has reached even deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean - New Scientist
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Cop30 live: Brazil aims for early agreement on ‘big four’ issues
In an unorthodox move, the Brazilian organisers have hatched a plan to wrap up the trickiest topics at the climate summit by this evening, two days earlier than normal
Mother Earth is watching over Cop30. “I am taking care to watch over all the decisions taken here about me,” she told the Guardian. The blessing card she presented said: “Knowing the powerful impact my thoughts can have on others and the environment, I choose to create a positive mindset.”
This beautiful vision is in everyday life Nazaré Oliveira, an indigenous woman from Belém, and a descendant of the Potyguar people. She is part of the international spiritual organisation Brahma Kumaris, led by women and which uses meditation to emphasise the concept of identity as souls rather than bodies and the idea that humanity and nature are one.
This is my fifth COP. I’ve been around since COP26 in Glasgow and this has been the most militarised COP I’ve attended. We had really high expectations because I’m from Latin America, and this is also the Latin American COP – apart from the Amazonian and the Brazilian Cop.
So we had really high expectations of also being able to demonstrate, protest and exercise our right to the civic space. But we have encountered heavy militarisation and a heavy crackdown on civil society protesting outside the venue.
I think it’s very disconcerting. Like it was definitely a very racist letter where the UN seems to want to inflict power over the autonomous territory of Brazilian authorities.
I think this is a confrontation that is needed. What’s happening in between civil society, the military and the UN, it’s a reflection of the tension that exists within this space. So I hope for this COP that the United Nations authorities and the Brazilian authorities open their eyes and they realise that what they are doing, what they are inflicting with the militarisation of COP is completely opposite of what they have been preaching in the last three years.
Brazil knew that they wanted to host this COP since three years ago, probably even earlier. So the way that they are responding to it does not show that they were ready to receive all this flow of international civil society. So my hope is that they can release, relax the heavy militarization that they’re putting in the space and allow us to use the civic space to demonstrate.
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India delays climate pledge, pressures rich nations on funding at UN climate talks - The Washington Post
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India delays climate pledge, pressures rich nations on funding at UN climate talks - Newsday
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Brazil's Lula makes diplomatic push for early climate deal at COP30 summit - Reuters
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Brazil’s Lula pushes negotiators for early climate deal at COP30 summit - WTVB
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Belgian climate case pits farmer against TotalEnergies - Courthouse News
At COP30, humanity must choose: Fossil fuel industry profits or a livable planet? - The Real News Network
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Donald Trump says 'I'm all for climate change' despite White House report denying climate science - Irish Star
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Newly discovered Colombian orchid faces 'foretold' extinction under climate change - Phys.org
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Keeping promises on renewables, energy efficiency and methane ‘would avoid nearly 1C of global heating’ - The Guardian
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Divide over fossil fuels phaseout can be bridged, Cop30 president says
Exclusive: André Corrêa do Lago says rise of clean energy must be acknowledged and rich countries need to do more
Oil-producing countries need to acknowledge the rise of clean energy, and rich countries will have to provide more assurances on finance if the chasm between negotiating nations at Cop30 is to be bridged, the president of the summit has said.
André Corrêa do Lago, the veteran Brazilian climate diplomat in charge of the talks, said: “Developing countries are looking at developed countries as countries that could be much more generous in supporting them to be more sustainable. They could offer more finance, and technology.”
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The Future of COP: What Young People Want from Climate Action - One Young World
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COP30: Tripling renewables emerges as central lever to push warming below 2°C - Down To Earth
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Heat-resistant kelp cultivars for warmer seas: A novel triploid breeding method - Phys.org
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Ancient Peatlands Reveal 15,000-Year Climate Secret - Technology Networks
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Guterres and Lula to push negotiators at COP30 as deadline looms - The Detroit News
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Denmark announces one of the world’s most ambitious climate targets, while the rest of the EU looks away
Governments across the continent have attacked green rules with increasing ferocity – all while professing their commitment to existing climate targets
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To little fanfare and few international headlines, Denmark just announced one of the world’s most ambitious climate targets.
The unusually wind-powered and cycle-friendly Nordic nation – whose ruling Social Democrats suffered a setback in elections on Tuesday – promised on Monday to cut planet-heating pollution by at least 82% by 2035 from 1990 levels. The goal inches past the UK’s landmark 81% target for that year and races ahead of the EU’s rather wide goal of 66.3% to 72.5%.
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Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3 million more deaths globally, analysis finds - Juneau Independent
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Tropical cyclone Fina intensifies to category two and could hit NT coast on Friday
If it makes impact on Friday, it would be the earliest cyclone of the season to make landfall in Australia since 1973
If tropical cyclone Fina crosses the Northern Territory coast on Friday, it could equal the earliest cyclone to make landfall in Australia.
Fina intensified to a category two storm on Wednesday night, the Bureau of Meteorology said, and was moving east about 370km north-east of Darwin before making an expected turn south on Thursday.
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COP 30 agenda: Contentious issues on climate change do not find a place - Business Standard
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Heat deaths to surge under Trump’s anti-climate agenda, study finds - Dagens.com
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Why Big Business Bailed on Brazil's Climate Conference - Crude Oil Prices Today | OilPrice.com
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To combat climate anxiety, COP negotiator recommends meditation - France 24
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Far beyond the climate crisis: COP30 must seek to build a new model of civilization - Phys.org
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Don’t blame patients for the emissions of their inhalers - Chemistry World
Guterres and Lula to push negotiators at COP30 as deadline looms - WSLS
Ministers Launch Global South–South Effort to Cut Methane and Nitrous Oxide from Agriculture - Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)
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Global warming rate could be halved by 2040 with 3 actions, report says - MLex
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A roadmap to move away from fossil fuels would be a big deal
Two years since countries agreed to transition away from coal, oil and gas, billions are still pouring into the industry, and emissions are at record levels. Could countries meeting in Brazil be about to change that?
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UNEP and CCAC release first global Methane report showing pathways to 2030 reduction goal - Africa Sustainability Matters
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Belgian farmer sues French energy giant for damage caused by climate change - WSLS
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Belgian farmer sues French energy giant for damage caused by climate change - The Independent
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Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘
The Arsenal and England forward is backing new global campaign because talent and teamwork should decide the game – not the climate
I’ll never forget stepping out on to the pitch in Switzerland for the Euro 2025 tournament. The air felt heavy – not with pressure or expectation, but with heat. It was more than 30C (86f) that day. It makes your lungs sting, makes you feel like you’re running through water.
In the England camp, we had done everything to prepare. Ice vests before training, hydration breaks, modified warm-ups – things that just weren’t part of football life a few years ago. At our base in Zurich we even had cryotherapy and Slush Puppies to cool our core temperatures. During training, there were ice-cold towels, extra rest moments and constant reminders to hydrate. You could feel how carefully the staff planned every detail. But when the whistle blew, no protocol could change the fact that the climate itself has changed.
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Momentum grows for global roadmap to phase out fossil fuels - DW
E&E News: The strange and totally real plot to blot out the sun and reverse global warming - POLITICO Pro
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E&E News: Artificial intelligence sparks debate at COP30 climate talks in Brazil - POLITICO Pro
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E&E News: Rich nations must hit net zero and pay up on climate, India says - POLITICO Pro
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Why XPRIZE is targeting methane mitigation for its next climate competition - Trellis Group (formerly GreenBiz)
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Voters don't care much about climate change — they're right - The Argument | Jerusalem Demsas
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China doesn’t want to lead alone on climate policies, senior adviser warns
Exclusive: A top official in Beijing’s Cop delegation says China is committed to clean energy – but US’s absence is a problem
China is committed to the energy transition needed to avert climate breakdown – but does not want to take the lead alone in the absence of the US, one of the country’s senior advisers has told the Guardian.
Wang Yi said China would provide more money to vulnerable countries, but the EU’s climate commissioner has warned Beijing is not doing enough to cut emissions.
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Shoot-at-sight orders for Himalayan black bears in Uttarakhand district as global warming messes up ursids’ hibernation schedules - Down To Earth
CCAC NDC Watch - Review of the Latest on Non-CO₂ Pollutants in National Climate Plans - Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)
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3 massive changes you'll see as the climate careens toward tipping points - NPR
Global warming is like a human fever, influential scientist says - Axios
Climate Change Is Stressing Italy’s Cows, and Coming for Your Burrata - The New York Times
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The Paris Agreement is working. Just ask Big Oil - DW
The Paris Agreement is working. Just ask Big Oil
The louder the lobbying, the clearer the fear. Ten years on, the Paris Agreement has reshaped energy politics, and the pushback from the fossil fuel sector is real.
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Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv seeks $44bn from Russia for climate-warming war emissions - The Guardian
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Belgian farmer sues French energy giant for damage caused by climate change - ABC News
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Ancient bogs reveal a hidden 15,000-year climate shift - ScienceDaily
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Three key near-term actions could bend the warming curve; bringing projected warming below 2˚C - Climate Action Tracker
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COP30: Africa needs funding to adapt to the climate crisis – what negotiators need to do to secure it - The Conversation
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Fossil fuel transition fight dominates early UN climate summit draft in Brazil - Courthouse News
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Host Brazil pushes for progress on big issues at COP30 and some see cause for optimism - AP News
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Latvia's climate-friendly solution to defend against Russia - DW
Final push at the UN climate talks: What you need to know
Small island states and major economies are urging a fair fossil-fuel phase-out as climate negotiations enter a critical juncture. Climate-friendly trade and improved climate finance are among the main flashpoints.
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Use of artificial intelligence both praised and criticized at COP30 climate talks in Brazil - PBS
Boat Electrification Is a Climate and Health Win. Making the Switch Isn’t Easy. - Inside Climate News
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World Falls Far Short Of Methane Cut Targets Halfway To 2030 Deadline - Health Policy Watch
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Cutting methane emissions: A fast, cheap climate solution?
Despite some progress in slashing the highly potent greenhouse gas, experts say the world can, and must, go much further to cut methane pollution.
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The fast-fix for global warming that the UN climate summit can’t ignore - The Conversation
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US joins Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Russia in the group of countries doing the least to combat climate change - EL PAÍS English
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Decelerated Arctic Sea ice loss triggered by accelerated North Pacific warming over the past decade - Nature
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Majorities in India think global warming is affecting extreme weather - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
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As New York City builds flood resilience, a Queens neighborhood feels neglected: ‘We are forgotten here’
Decade after officials promised to cut flood risks, Edgemere residents and experts say it continues to be vulnerable
This article was produced in partnership between Floodlight, New York Focus and the Guardian.
Baba Ndanani has lived in one of New York City’s most flood-prone neighborhoods for more than 20 years, and he knows the risks all too well.
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‘Without our expertise, mistakes get made’: the Cop30 campaign to give workers a voice
In this week’s newsletter: The green transition’s effect on workers is a hot topic, as advocates push for those working at the frontlines to have a say in climate policy
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We know that to avert the worst effects of the climate crisis, the world must reshape fundamental aspects of society – from how we eat and move around to how we turn on the lights and build homes. The transformation of energy, manufacturing, construction, agriculture and transport is creating millions of new jobs. But it’s also disrupting old roles in polluting industries.
The green transition’s effect on workers around the world is a hot topic at this year’s Cop30 climate conference here in Belém, Brazil. More on what labour and climate justice advocates are demanding, after today’s headlines.
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Tuvalu rebukes Trump’s ‘shameful disregard’ at Cop30
Have courage to create fossil fuel phaseout roadmap at Cop30, Brazilian minister urges
Thousands hit streets of Belém to call for action during crucial Cop30 summit
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Global climate progress visible but major emitters lag, new report finds
Renewables are booming and emissions are easing, yet fossil-fuel states are holding back momentum on slowing climate change. Who are the surprising leaders and laggers in the latest climate rankings?
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EarthTalk - How long have scientists known about global warming and its potential catastrophic effects? - Kiowa County Press
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Weather behind past heat waves could return far deadlier - Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
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Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur - Nature
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The conservative parties can change their leaders – but it won’t stop the NSW Coalition’s death spiral | Anne Davies
The Nationals have a new leader in Gurmesh Singh, and Kellie Sloane could soon replace Liberal leader Mark Speakman. But the Coalition is fractured on net zero
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The NSW Nationals have a new leader, Gurmesh Singh, and the Liberals will almost certainly follow suit by early next week.
It’s desperation politics. Changing leaders will probably do nothing to stop the apparent death spiral the conservative side of politics has inflicted upon itself – in Canberra and now the states.
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UN climate conference host Brazil urges nations to negotiate and find solutions to global warming - ABC News
Sussan Ley, it’s time we took a look at your climate policy report card. You appear to have learned nothing | Tristan Edis
My advice to you if you want to avoid repeating 2025 is to pay far greater attention to the quality of your research sources
Sussan Ley, as your teacher I’m duty bound to give you an honest appraisal of your work.
I’ve just read your team research assignment on Australian energy and climate policy and I’m afraid to say that unless you and your other team members pull up your socks, you will be forced to repeat 2025.
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‘The haste feels contagious … I fear it’: a Xipai journalist on attending Cop30
An Indigenous journalist’s experience of entering the belly of Cop where time does not flourish, it is consumed
I feel as if I’ve been swallowed. And in the creature’s stomach, I walk with the sensation of being drowned. My nose hurts, with the same pain we feel when we are struggling to breathe. That’s my perception of the blue zone of Cop30, the official area for the negotiations. The architecture makes me think of the stomach of an animal.
My eyes hurt, seeing so many people coming and going through the main corridor. This is the scene of a makeshift forest. On the walls are large paintings of a jaguar, a monkey, an anteater and a lizard. In the middle of the corridor are plants that resemble açaí palm trees, and below them, small shrubs. The place of nature within the blue zone is ornamental.
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'According to Bill Gates, the best antidote to global warming is development' - Le Monde.fr
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El Niño-like warming underestimated in a warmer climate due to ENSO rectification effect - Nature
AMOC weakening modulates global warming impacts on precipitation over Brazil - Nature
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Africa prioritises adaptation as global warming nears 3°C - APAnews - Agence de Presse Africaine
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Worrying report on the impact of global warming: lives lost, natural disasters, and millions spent - Noticias Ambientales
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So many climate numbers. What do they all mean?
Even "numbers people" can be confused by the array of digits used to describe climate progress and failings. Here's what they really mean.
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Cop30: UN accused of crackdown on Indigenous people – as it happened - The Guardian
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China: The reluctant climate leader
As the United States steps back from climate diplomacy, China is presenting itself as a responsible power leading in clean, green technology.
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Mutirao: The Brazilian Indigenous concept that could change climate talks
Indigenous peoples around the world are vital to protecting forests yet are often shut out of climate policy decisions. At COP30, they hope world leaders will finally respond to their concerns.
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Can Cop30 begin the process of phasing out fossil fuels?
Ending use of coal, oil and gas is essential in tackling climate crisis – but even talking about it is controversial
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Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris
Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare?
As autumn blurs into winter, the news is once again filling up with a familiar story: overflowing rivers, inundated streets and overwhelmed infrastructure. Since Friday, England, Wales and Ireland have been hit by the storm the Spanish meteorological agency has elegantly named Claudia, with grim results. One place in particular massively bore the brunt of it all: the Welsh border town of Monmouth, where the raging River Monnow spilled into the streets, people had to be rescued from their homes and drones captured aerial views of the scene, showing fragile-looking buildings suddenly surrounded by a huge clay-brown swamp.
Claudia and her effects made it into the national headlines – but mostly, local and regional floods now seem too mundane to attract that kind of attention. Eleven days ago, Cumbria saw submerged roads, blocked drains and over 250 flood-related problems reported to the relevant councils. Railway lines in Cornwall were submerged; in Carmarthen, in west Wales, there were reports of the worst floods in living memory. But beyond the areas affected, who heard about these stories? Such comparatively small events, it seems, are now only to be expected.
John Harris is a Guardian columnist
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The Coalition is spinning a line that climate action is economically bad. How are they getting away with it? | Zoe Daniel
In this post-truth environment, the interests of coal and gas are somehow able to win the hearts and minds of voters
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During the last parliament I negotiated an amendment to the Climate Change Act to lock in Australia’s carbon emissions target as a floor – not a ceiling.
I did it to promote government ambition to exceed the target and, having covered the first Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement, to provide a legislative buffer against backsliding by a future Australian government.
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COP30: How Brazilian crime cartels undermine climate efforts
Illegal logging, gold mining, and drug trafficking: Organized crime in Brazil is sabotaging efforts to combat global warming. This issue has long been overlooked at climate conferences. Is that finally about to change?
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The unexpected coalition trying to force fossil fuels onto the agenda at COP30
Dozens of nations are pushing for a roadmap to phase out oil, coal and gas at the UN climate summit in Brazil. But a bloc of powerful oil-producing countries and industry lobbyists are putting up a fight.
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Brazil: What COP30 means for the people of Belem
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been poured into local construction and infrastructure projects in Belem — but not everyone is profiting from the investment.
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COP30: 10 visuals to help you understand climate change
In Belem, the UN climate conference is underway. Here are key facts that explain how rising temperatures are disrupting our planet today.
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European Parliament backs diluted 2040 climate targets
Lawmakers approved proposals to slightly weaken EU carbon emissions targets for 2040. Another vote on corporate supply chain standards was even more contentious as it required populist support to pass.
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Is Germany still a climate leader?
Germany was long considered to be ahead of the pack on climate, but does that hold true under chancellor Friedrich Merz?
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Think the Paris Agreement failed? Here's what it actually achieved
Global emissions continue to rise a decade after the Paris Agreement. However, solar, wind and EV growth demonstrate that climate action can work. Here's what has been achieved and what remains urgent.
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Trump is not going to COP30 in Brazil, but America is
The Trump administration has trivialized COP30, and is not sending anyone to the climate talks in Belem. But local and regional leaders from across the US want the world to know they're not giving up.
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Lula urges action as COP30 climate talks kick off in Amazon
As COP30 gets underway, Brazil's president calls for urgent climate action. UN analysis shows global emissions will only decline 12% by 2035, well short of the target for limiting warming.
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COP30: 'Climate conference of truth' in Brazil?
At the COP30 climate summit, nations will again try to agree on targets to limit catastrophic global temperature rise. But many barriers remain before steep greenhouse gas cuts are realized.
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Q&A: what are the main issues at Cop30 and why do they matter?
Cop returns to its Brazilian roots and attempts to map a path to crucial emissions cuts that navigates financial, scientific and ethical aspects of the climate crisis
Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis, says Cop30 chief
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Cop30 is the 30th conference of the parties under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the treaty signed in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro that binds the world to “avoid dangerous climate change”, without specifying how to do so.
This year, Cop returns to its roots in Brazil for the first time in the Amazonian city of Belém. The Brazilian hosts have a packed agenda, with 145 separate items on it, and decided to begin early, with a preliminary event called the Belém Climate Summit. World leaders were invited to this two-day event, held on Thursday 6 and Friday 7 November in Belém, to try to encourage their negotiating teams to shed entrenched positions and take bold actions at Cop itself.
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Global warming - Climate Change, Melting Ice, Rising Sea Levels - Britannica
Global warming - Climate Change, Glaciation, Effects - Britannica
Amid squabbles, bombast and competing interests, what can Cop30 achieve?
Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions
“It broke my heart.” Surangel Whipps, president of the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, was sitting in the front row of the UN’s general assembly in New York when Donald Trump made a long and rambling speech, his first to the UN since his re-election, on 23 September.
Whipps was prepared for fury and bombast from the US president, but what followed was shocking. Trump’s rant on the climate crisis – a “green scam”, “the greatest con job ever perpetrated”, “predictions made by stupid people” – was an unprecedented attack on science and global action from a major world leader.
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Lula’s balancing act: Cop30 Amazon summit juggles climate and social priorities
Brazil’s president welcomes world leaders while navigating divided government, promising action on deforestation and emissions
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has welcomed world leaders to Belém for the first climate summit in the Amazon, where conservationists hope he can be a champion for the rainforest and its people.
But with a divided administration, a hostile Congress and 20th-century developmentalist instincts, this global figurehead of the centre left has a balancing act to perform in advocating protection of nature and a reduction of emissions.
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Cautious hopes for Brazil as host of COP30 climate talks
The world's eyes will be on the Amazon in coming weeks as Brazil hosts the UN climate summit. With the country's mixed environmental record, can Brazil's government help push through vital climate action?
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Making forest protection more lucrative than destruction
From the Amazon to the Congo, rain forests are vital ecosystems that have long been plundered to make way for mining or agriculture. But a new global forest fund aims to reward conservation.
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Climate change mitigation: reducing emissions - European Environment Agency (EEA)
Climate change mitigation: reducing emissions European Environment Agency (EEA)
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The rapid approach of the 1.5°C global warming threshold since the Paris Agreement - Copernicus
The rapid approach of the 1.5°C global warming threshold since the Paris Agreement Copernicus
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The world is likely to exceed a key global warming target soon. Now what? - UNEP - UN Environment Programme
The world is likely to exceed a key global warming target soon. Now what? UNEP - UN Environment Programme
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Shifting dominant periods in extreme climate impacts under global warming - Nature
Shifting dominant periods in extreme climate impacts under global warming Nature
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New climate pledges do little to correct global warming projection, UN warns - UN News
New climate pledges do little to correct global warming projection, UN warns UN News
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For the first time, climate models show the 1.5°C goal is dead - The Economist
For the first time, climate models show the 1.5°C goal is dead The Economist
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China’s air-quality improvements have hastened global warming - The Economist
Why global warming could be ‘rewriting race history’ at major marathon events - CNN
What is climate change? A really simple guide - BBC
A new approach for the world’s climate strategy | Bill Gates - gatesnotes.com
Our planet is warming. Here’s what’s at stake if we don’t act now. - World Wildlife Fund
Our planet is warming. Here’s what’s at stake if we don’t act now. World Wildlife Fund
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What are the top sources of news for Global Warming’s Six Americas? - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
What are the top sources of news for Global Warming’s Six Americas? Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
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Global warming amplifies wildfire health burden and reshapes inequality - Nature
Global warming amplifies wildfire health burden and reshapes inequality Nature
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Climate change: global temperature - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (.gov)
Climate change: global temperature National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (.gov)
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