A diluted COP: Climate divisions hardened at Belem amid global warming Business Standard
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COP30 Summit in Brazil ends in compromise without key decisions Українські Національні Новини
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For all its flaws, the Brazil conference underlined the wish by a global majority for clean energy and climate action – and the UK will keep leading the way
Ed Miliband is the secretary of state for energy security and net zero
Sweaty, maddening, sleepless. That’s what it was like to be part of Cop30 in Brazil. And yet more than 190 countries came together in the rainforest of the Amazon and reaffirmed their faith in multilateralism, the Paris agreement and the need to redouble our efforts to keep global warming to 1.5C.
We went to Cop because working with other countries to tackle the climate crisis is the only way to protect our home and way of life. We know the UK produces just 1% of emissions, which is why, as the prime minister said in Belém, our government is “all-in” on working with others to reduce the remaining 99%.
Ed Miliband is Labour MP for Doncaster North and secretary of state for energy security and net zero
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Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chief
The world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belém, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30 reached a deal.
Countries at Cop30 failed to bring the curtain down on the fossil fuel age amid opposition from some countries led by Saudi Arabia, and they underdelivered on a flagship hope – at a conference held in the Amazon – to chart an end to deforestation.
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EU leads isolated group of countries pushing for global climate action Financial Times
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It’s Called ‘Seasonal Drift,’ Or The Science Behind A Warmer Thanksgiving Forbes
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COP30 Climate Summit 2025 in Brazil: Key takeaways on climate finance, emissions, and global unity The Economic Times
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COP30's unambitious agreement preserves multilateralism but overlooks the climate emergency Le Monde.fr
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Africa to pay 'deadly price' despite doing 'very little' to cause climate change: UN chief TRT Afrika
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'Never-ending summer': Is climate change driving Houston's unseasonably warm fall weather? Houston Chronicle
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U.N. climate talks fizzle out 10 years after Paris accord The Washington Post
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Despite Australia signing the Belém declaration, Albanese rejected suggestion Labor shouldn’t develop new gas fields
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The Albanese government is being urged to explain how it will drive a fossil fuel phase-out, after it joined dozens of countries at a UN climate summit to back a declaration that the world should quickly wean off coal, gas and oil.
Australia signed up to the declaration on a just transition away from fossil fuels at a side event at the Cop30 conference in the Brazilian city of Belém, which finished on Saturday night local time, more than 24 hours after the scheduled close.
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Climate change and inequality are connected. Policies need to reflect this Phys.org
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Australia may not be hosting Cop31, but the unprecedented Turkey partnership is a real chance to secure global influence and turbocharge a new green zeitgeist
The Cop30 climate conference has finally come to an end, with Australia having lost out on the grand prize of hosting next year’s gathering. But Australia’s formal partnership agreement with Turkey nevertheless provides an opportunity to secure unparalleled global influence and turbocharge our own transformation to a net zero, green export economy. Here are three ways to make it happen.
First, Chris Bowen’s new role as Cop31 “president of negotiations” puts the climate and energy minister at the helm of the most complex and consequential multilateral process in the world.
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‘Empty Deal’ at COP30 as Petrostates Block Progress on Fossil Fuel Phaseout The Energy Mix
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Science says climate change is an existential threat dailyrecordnews.com
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Two weeks of climate negotiations in the Brazilian city of Belem have closed with an agreement that calls for renewed commitments to tackle rising temperatures, yet omits any mention of fossil fuels.
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COP 30 Outcome: What it means and what’s next International Institute for Sustainable Development
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What the COP30 climate summit in the Amazon delivered for forests and Indigenous people Reuters
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Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
The world edged a small step closer to the end of the fossil fuel era on Saturday, but not by nearly enough to stave off the ravages of climate breakdown.
Countries meeting in Brazil for two weeks could manage only a voluntary agreement to begin discussions on a roadmap to an eventual phase-out of fossil fuels, and they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries.
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COP30 Climate Summit Reaches Deal That Leaves Many Nations Unhappy Bloomberg.com
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Belém COP30 delivers climate finance boost and a pledge to plan fossil fuel transition UN News
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World leaders secure compromise climate deal, sidestep fossil fuels USA Today
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COP30 climate talks end with more money for countries hit by climate change The Times of Israel
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World governments agreed on Saturday to a compromise climate deal at the Cop30 conference in Brazil that would increase finance for poor countries coping with global warming but omits any mention of the fossil fuels responsible for it. In securing the accord, which was gavelled through by Cop's president, André Corrêa do Lago, countries attempted to demonstrate global unity in addressing climate change impacts, even after the world's biggest historical emitter, the US, declined to send an official delegation
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Deal or ‘meh’ deal? Climate efforts stagger but don’t collapse in Brazil E&E News by POLITICO
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The Paris Climate Agreement Is Turning 10—These 5 Charts Show What Progress We’ve Made Scientific American
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With the world at COP30, Trump administration rolls back environmental rules NBC News
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Earth’s Largest Natural Carbon Sink Is Being Thrown Off Balance, and Scientists Are Worried SciTechDaily
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G20 summit declaration stresses seriousness of climate change in snub to Trump Reuters
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Cop30 climate summit runs into overtime amid divisions over fossil fuels RFI
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The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality The Conversation
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Summit president André Corrêa do Lago issued plea to preserve Paris agreement with countries unable to reach compromise on scheduled final day
An informal stocktake plenary is now underway [see live feed at the top of the blog]. Here the presidency will update parties on the state of the negotiations.
My colleague Damian Carrington will be keeping across the main developments.
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UN climate talks go into overtime as divisions over fossil fuels persist Al Jazeera
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What does the church really teach about climate change? | Lorna Gold U.S. Catholic
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From waste pickers to courtrooms: Women demand a gender focus at COP30 UN News
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Americans Don’t Take Climate Change Seriously. Might I Suggest One Simple Fix? Slate
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The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming Politico
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Ever decreasing funding for the globally respected government agency mirrors an industry-wide trend that could hinder scientific breakthroughs
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Sweeping job cuts across the nation’s science agency this week have been foreshadowed for months, but the sheer scale of them has left many researchers within laboratories and offices across the country shocked.
Up to 350 research roles are on the cutting room floor across key areas – including environment, human health and minerals – as leaders of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) attempt to steer the agency from a steep funding cliff.
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Three representatives of developing countries speak candidly about meetings behind closed doors in Belém
In the negotiating rooms at the Cop30 climate conference, representatives from vulnerable countries work to get the best deal they can. Here, three of them reveal what happens behind closed doors.
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In the final hours of UN climate talks in Brazil, negotiators are pushing to bridge divides on key issues including finance and moving away from coal, oil and gas.
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Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth?
I began by trying to discover whether or not a widespread belief was true. In doing so, I tripped across something even bigger: an index of the world’s indifference. I already knew that by burning fossil fuels, gorging on meat and dairy, and failing to make even simple changes, the rich world imposes a massive burden of disaster, displacement and death on people whose responsibility for the climate crisis is minimal. What I’ve now stumbled into is the vast black hole of our ignorance about these impacts.
What I wanted to discover was whether it’s true that nine times as many of the world’s people die of cold than of heat. The figure is often used by people who want to delay climate action: if we do nothing, some maintain, fewer will die. Of course, they gloss over all the other impacts of climate breakdown: the storms, floods, droughts, fires, crop failures, disease and sea level rise. But is this claim, at least, correct?
George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist
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Since 1995, when the first Cop was held, carbon levels have increased from 360.67 parts per million to 426.68 parts now
In 1995, when the first “conference of the parties” (Cop) of the UN’s climate change convention met in Berlin, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration was approximately 360.67 parts per million. The then German chancellor, Helmut Kohl, gave a passionate speech about how greenhouse gases must be reduced to save the planet from overheating. There was a relatively unknown East German woman, the environment minister, Angela Merkel, chairing the conference. She was red hot at keeping order. The UK journalists concluded she would have a bright future.
Immediately after the conference I was commissioned to write a book about climate change called Global Warming: Can Civilization Survive? It sold well and was the first of several.
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Human-induced climate change compounded by socio-economic water stressors increased severity of 5-year drought in Iran and Euphrates and Tigris basin World Weather Attribution
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What do we know about climate change? How do we know it? And where are we headed? The Conversation
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A fire has interrupted proceedings at the COP30 climate summit in Belem, Brazil. Tourism Minister Celso Sabino said that it had been contained without any major injuries. Climate talks will restart on Friday.
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Exclusive: Europe plans service to gauge climate change role in extreme weather Reuters
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Massive mountains of waste near the Thames River in Oxfordshire, England, and in suburbs around Bucharest, Romania, reveal a hidden crisis: illegal waste dumps and the criminal gangs that profit from them.
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Cooling Our Environment: An Architect’s Vision to Combat Global Warming Countercurrents
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She was sure that there would be warnings if there was any danger. But then the floods came. This is Toñi García’s story
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Disaster Floods, 2024
Toñi García lives in Valencia. On 29 October 2024, devastating storms hit the Iberian peninsula, bringing the heaviest rain so far this century. The national alert system sounded at around 8.30pm local time; by then, however, flood waters had already broken through the city. Scientists say the explosive downpours were linked to climate change.
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Carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels is causing climate change. From renewables and green tech to tackling deforestation, what will it take to turn the tide on emissions?
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While the outcome is a let down for those who want Australia to do better on climate, Chris Bowen looks set to play a pivotal role in the UN talks
Ouch. From one perspective, Australia’s long-running bid to host the Cop31 UN climate conference next year has ended in clear failure.
It campaigned for more than three years for the right to put on the world’s biggest climate summit and green trade fair, which would have brought tens of thousands of people to the South Australian capital of Adelaide next November.
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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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E&E News: The strange and totally real plot to blot out the sun and reverse global warming POLITICO Pro
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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 still mounting.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ending use of coal, oil and gas is essential in tackling climate crisis – but even talking about it is controversial
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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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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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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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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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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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Impact of Global Warming on Food Security: How does a 1°C increase in temperature affect levels of food insecurity? UN World Food Programme
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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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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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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
From net zero to NDCs: your comprehensive Cop30 jargon buster
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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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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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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COP30 climate summit hears from countries suffering global warming harms Al Jazeera
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Climate change mitigation: reducing emissions European Environment Agency (EEA)
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Global Warming Made Hurricane Melissa More Damaging, Researchers Say The New York Times
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Global warming is forcing Earth's systems toward 'doom loop' tipping points. Can we avoid them? Live Science
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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
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New climate pledges do little to correct global warming projection, UN warns UN News
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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
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Climate change is accelerating, scientists find in ‘grim’ report Yale Climate Connections
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