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In 2015 nearly 200 countries signed a historic agreement to fight climate change. What has changed in that time?
Geopolitical tensions loom over the COP30 climate summit in Belém. Plus: Beijing’s plan to cut industry emissions; global climate policy without the US; how Brazil can make the Amazon pay; and what has been achieved in the 10 years since the Paris accord?
‘Last chance tourism’ brings economic benefits but puts pressure on local communities in an increasingly fragile landscape
At COP30, ‘adaptation’ to global warming is high on the agenda as efforts to reduce emissions stall
The World Resources Institute president is bullish about the path to decarbonisation
As banking and insurance groups retreat under pressure, pension and sovereign funds keep the climate focus alive
US investment in renewables has fallen by more than a third this year
Countries must now decide the future of a plan that sets out possible sources of revenue
Government argues against externally determined goals for decarbonisation and development
Survival of world’s largest rainforest depends on whether it can be made profitable
Accounting concerns mean uptake of global trading mechanism has been slow
Reactionary policies of the US will make the hard task of the energy transition far more difficult
Expansion of the country’s power network has not kept pace with a surge in renewable projects
Beijing’s next test is cutting emissions from heavy industry — a move that could redefine global climate leadership
Technique to trigger rainfall is one of the Gulf’s boldest climate adaptation projects
Planned changes to the scheme have split industry and trading partners just months before it comes into force
Despite limits of multilateralism the world would be much worse off without the historic climate accord
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Forging ahead with oil exploration in the Amazon, and leading the charge against deforestation, Brazil vows to make this climate change conference a "COP of truth"
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The Congo Basin, a region of tropical forest larger than India, is at a point where further damage may rob the world of a crucial bulwark against climate change.
Ten institutions jointly pledged at COP30 to ramp up finance for resilience.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva implored nations to strike a blow to obstructionists blocking the fight against global warming as UN climate negotiations kicked off Monday.
A European Union parliamentary committee recommended the bloc takes on a new emissions-reduction goal, a key step on the path to net zero by mid-century.
The European Central Bank fined Spanish lender Abanca Corporacion Bancaria SA over its management of risks related to climate change, a first for the watchdog as it pushes the industry to brace for the fallout of a warming planet.
The Climate Investment Funds, a $13 billion multilateral vehicle that sits inside the World Bank, has raised $100 million in funding from Germany and Spain for a new program designed to help poor countries withstand the fallout from climate change.
Man Group Plc, the world’s largest publicly traded hedge-fund manager, is seeing growth in client flows as a number of institutional investors in Europe reassign mandates based on sustainability criteria.
Shell Plc canceled plans to build two wind farms off the coast of Scotland as the British oil major pulls back from significant investments in the sector.
Welcome to COP30, officially. After the two-day leaders summit last week, the Conference of Parties starts today and will go on until at least Nov. 21.
Air passengers departing Singapore will pay a green fuel levy of as much as S$41.60 ($31.95) from next year as the city-state locks in a key step in its effort to cut the aviation industry’s emissions.
India’s power grid is struggling to absorb a surge in solar power installations, leading to more curtailment that threatens the build-out of renewables and underscores the need for energy storage.
Companies in Japan are likely to win greater benefits than global peers from spending on climate resilience, according to CDP, an environmental disclosure nonprofit.
The world must "defeat" climate denialism and fake news, Brazil's President Lula da Silva tells UN climate summit.
The US president is notably absent from these UN climate talks, as are other world leaders, all of which prompts questions about the purpose of COP today.
The US president is notably absent from these UN climate talks, as are other world leaders, all of which prompts questions about the purpose of COP today.
Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30Cop30: click here for full Guardian coverage of the climate talks in BrazilGovernments failing to shift to a low-carbon economy will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and will face stagnation and rising inflation at home, the UN’s climate chief warned on Monday at the start of the Cop30 climate talks.Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the UN framework convention on climate change, addressed the gathering of ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries, in a stark portrayal of the price of failure on the climate crisis. Continue reading...
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 crisisRich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis, says Cop30 chiefFrom net zero to NDCs: your comprehensive Cop30 jargon busterCop30 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. Continue reading...
An expert describes how communities in some of the world’s driest areas are demanding transparency as secretive governments court billions in foreign investmentThis Q&A originally appeared as part of The Guardian’s TechScape newsletter. Sign up for this weekly newsletter here.The datacenters that power the artificial intelligence boom are beyond enormous. Their financials, their physical scale, and the amount of information contained within are so massive that the idea of stopping their construction can seem like opposing an avalanche in progress. Continue reading...
Ari loved his community and set up a volunteer group to fight wildfires. One day his brother Bilal received the phone call he had long dreaded. This is Bilal’s storyLocation Halabja, IraqDisaster Wildfires, 2025Bilal Mukhtar is a teacher living in Halabja, in the Hawraman region of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region. Wildfires are breaking out here with increasing frequency, caused by natural events and compounded by hotter and drier weather. Iraq is experiencing its worst drought in nearly a century. Climate change makes drought and wildfire in Iraq more likely. Continue reading...
In 1995, as one of the Ogoni Nine, he was hanged after protesting against Shell’s oil pollution. With education and a move towards renewable energy, we can honour his legacyEarlier this year, my father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and his eight colleagues, known collectively as the Ogoni Nine, were pardoned for a crime they never committed. After peacefully campaigning against environmental degradation of Ogoniland in Nigeria at the hands of the oil industry, they were imprisoned by the military dictatorship on false charges of treason and incitement to murder, following a trial condemned by the international community as a sham.On 10 November 1995, the men were executed by hanging. Continue reading...
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.
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.
At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.
This year’s U.N. climate talks are being held in Brazil. So far, they’ve been noteworthy for who isn’t attending.
