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Delegates say nerves are jangling as they anticipate disruption at COP30 from the US and its allies
Member states, including Italy, make last-minute push to delay carbon pricing and outsource emissions cuts
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The big wins by Democrats in Tuesday’s elections across the US turned into a rallying cry at an environmental conference in Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil, host of the COP30 climate summit, presented its vision for how to rewire the global financial system in order to provide $1.3 trillion per year to developing countries by 2035.
If the world collectively retreated from green policies, the global economy would shrink, Bloomberg Economics researchers write.
The hedge fund industry is lobbying hard to ensure the UK excludes it from new climate regulations, after prevailing in a similar campaign in the European Union.
Banks have arranged more than $425 billion of financing for the companies most responsible for deforestation over the past decade.
Germany’s wind generation is forecast to drop to its lowest level in a year later this week, after hitting a record for October, as a high-pressure system moves in.
The decision makes it harder for Brazil, the summit host, to raise $125 billion toward the fund that’s designed to protect tropical forests.
European Union member states sealed a deal to reduce emissions by 90% through 2040 compared with 1990 levels, a climate win that required some proposals to be watered down.
Norway’s parliament voted to pause “ethical” divestment from its $2.1 trillion sovereign wealth fund while it rewrites the rules, marking an historic moment for the world’s largest investor and raising fundamental questions about its approach to ESG.
It’s easy to see the climate failures all around, from banks watering down their net-zero ambitions to the second term of US President Donald Trump. But the data shows signs of progress. Halting, uneven and not fast enough to be sure, but there’s an undeniable transition afoot.
Drax Group Plc has signed a low-carbon contract for difference with the UK government covering its four biomass units, finalizing an agreement that analysts had expected to be delayed until next year.
Malaysia is considering setting its planned carbon tax on polluting industries at an initial rate of 15 ringgit ($3.58) per ton of emissions, as it aims to curb the nation’s climate footprint.
European Union member states clinched a preliminary deal to reduce emissions by 90% through 2040 compared with 1990 levels, a move that bolsters the bloc’s climate leadership credentials ahead of the COP30 summit.
New Zealand carbon unit prices tumbled after the government announced changes to climate laws that could erode confidence in the nation’s Emissions Trading Scheme.
Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William‘We’re leading the way’: Starmer defends plans for green economy before Cop30The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit.Keir Starmer flew to Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon, on Wednesday to join the summit of world leaders hosted by Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva. Continue reading...
University of Queensland modelling says reef will suffer ‘rapid coral decline’ in coming decades but could still recover if targets metSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesThe Great Barrier Reef will undergo “rapid coral decline” until 2050 but could recover if global heating is kept below 2C, according to the most detailed modelling so far of the future of the world’s biggest coral reef.The finding contradicts a widely held view that the decline of the oceanic gem would become irreversible as global temperatures rise above 1.5C, with one report last month suggesting the world’s tropical corals had already reached a tipping point of long-term decline.Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...
Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and major supermarkets want to double amount of beans Britons eatMagic beans: the protein-rich superfood in a potful of top chefs’ recipesJamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall are among a group of celebrity chefs and supermarkets leading a new campaign to double UK bean consumption by 2028.There has been a long push for people to include more legumes in their diets – they are climate friendly and healthy. As the UK faces increasing disease related to poor diets as well as increasing food prices, and the campaigners argue that it is the correct time to launch a drive to “bang in some beans” to the nation’s meals. Continue reading...
Blocking the sun may reduce global heating – but ‘rogue actor’ could cause drought or more hurricanes, report findsSolar geoengineering could increase the ferocity of North Atlantic hurricanes, cause the Amazon rainforest to die back and cause drought in parts of Africa if deployed above only some parts of the planet by rogue actors, a report has warned.However, if technology to block the sun was used globally and in a coordinated way for a long period – decades or even centuries – there is strong evidence that it would lower the global temperature, the review from the UK’s Royal Society concluded. Continue reading...
Exclusive: Experts say impact on people of colour and those who do not drive is ‘grave environmental injustice’Air pollution in England and Wales has fallen, but the poorest neighbourhoods are still exposed to the most extreme levels of toxins, new analysis has found.Experts have called this a “grave environmental injustice” as the inequality around who is exposed to air pollution has dramatically grown in the last decade. Continue reading...
Eucalyptus production is dominated by large multinationals that convert farmland and forest into monoculture plantationsRazor-straight rows of eucalyptus clones flank the Baixa Verde settlement in north-eastern Brazil. The genetically identical trees are in marked contrast to the patches of wild Atlantic forest – one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth – that remain scattered across the region.Surrounded by nearly 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres) of eucalyptus plantations, Baixa Verde is a rare example of a local victory over a multinational in Brazil. The rural settlement owes its existence to nearly two decades of legal battles over land rights – but the fight is not over yet. Continue reading...
Experts find artefacts left behind in Caral showing how population survived drought without resorting to violenceArchaeologists in Peru have found new evidence showing how the oldest known civilization in the Americas adapted and survived a climate catastrophe without resorting to violence.A team led by the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Ruth Shady, 78, concluded that about 4,200 years ago, severe drought forced the population to leave the ancient city of Caral, and resettle nearby. Continue reading...
European environment ministers have reached an agreement on a contentious plan to cut the bloc's greenhouse gas emissions but with caveats.
The pressure is on for leaders attending the 30th UN Climate Change Conference to prevent global warming from accelerating further. Where are countries making strides?
The multibillion-dollar fund would essentially pay countries to keep forests standing, hoping for success where earlier forest-protection ideas have struggled.
