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Attendance declines by about half from last year’s COP
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ZOMA LAB, the family office of Walmart Inc. heir Ben Walton, has committed $100 million to a new facility to expand the market for so-called debt swaps designed to help finance climate and environmental projects.
Brazil’s main plan to protect the Amazon rainforest, the centerpiece of its COP30 climate agenda, is moving ahead — with Norway playing a key role in its launch, though initial funding falls well short of expectations.
Work to find and stop methane emissions is getting a $100 million boost, with an investment aimed at expanding satellite monitoring and helping countries adopt policies to rein in releases of the potent greenhouse gas.
Presidents and prime ministers lamented the slow pace of work to fight climate change at a meeting in the Brazilian Amazon.
After years of complaints from investors, the European Commission is proposing significant changes to the bloc’s ESG fund rules, with the ostensible goal of making the framework more manageable and less prone to greenwashing.
HSBC Holdings Plc is expecting oil and gas deals to make up a smaller part of its energy portfolio, as renewables look to be the preferred way to feed data centers powering artificial intelligence.
Early discussions have been “positive” within the group tasked with ensuring transition away from fossil fuels benefits all people at the COP30 climate summit, according to Grace Fu, Singapore’s Minister for Sustainability and the Environment.
Global temperatures through August were 1.4C higher than the average before the industrial age, putting 2025 on track to be one of the hottest years on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
A group of European Union lawmakers is pushing to postpone the bloc’s carbon market cap-and-trade system by at least three years, potentially dealing another blow to the region’s green agenda.
After seeing an influx of residents during the pandemic, some the riskiest counties are now losing residents.
Money managers that retreat from sustainable investment pledges are increasingly being turned away when they pitch themselves to major asset owners in Europe, according to the chief executive of Federated Hermes Inc.
When Donald Trump removed the US from the Paris Agreement in his first term, mayors jumped in with pledges to cut their cities’ emissions. The same pattern is unfolding this time around — and the results of Tuesday’s US elections have mayors around the world feeling cautiously optimistic.
Europe signaled it’s willing to accommodate international concerns about its ESG rules, as the bloc fields threats from the US and Qatar.
Scientists analyzed data from a test mining operation to document threats to small marine organisms key to the health of commercially valuable seafood like tuna.
A new analysis shows how much climate change contributed to the destructive storm’s climb into the record books.
World leaders are gathering in Belem, Brazil, for the COP30 climate negotiations, but what will be achieved?
A majority of experts on China’s climate and energy policies expect the world’s top polluter to outperform fresh emissions-reduction targets that have been criticized as too timid, according to a new study.
World leaders address COP30 climate summit in Belém and take aim at Trump record on climate change.
Winners include a project for making the Atlantic Forest financially viable and a global ocean treaty initiative.
These powerful tropical storms are generally becoming more intense as the world warms.
This is our message to world leaders: make this the ‘Cop of truth’, before people lose faithLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of BrazilToday, in the Brazilian Amazon, the Belém summit opens ahead of the 30th United Nations climate change conference (Cop30). I have convened world leaders in the days leading up to the conference so that we can all commit to acting with the urgency the climate crisis demands.If we fail to move beyond speeches into real action, our societies will lose faith – not only in the Cops, but in multilateralism and international politics more broadly. That is why I have summoned leaders to the Amazon: to make this the “Cop of truth”, the moment we demonstrate the seriousness of our shared commitment to the planet.Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of Brazil Continue reading...
ASA action won approval of clean air campaigners, who said some ‘seriously misleading myths’ had been debunkedAdverts claiming that wood-burning stoves are “very low emissions” have been banned by the Advertising Standards Agency for being misleading and not substantiated.The claims were made on the website of the Stove Industry Association, which represents the makers and sellers of stoves in the UK. Campaigners against air pollution said they were glad the ASA had debunked some “seriously misleading myths”. Continue reading...
Scheme aims to raise $125bn to invest in bonds, with returns used to reward tropical countries for conservationAs a battle-scarred veteran of the war against nature, Garo Batmanian has spent 45 years trying to defend the Amazon rainforest. For most of that time, the resistance he leads has been outfunded and outgunned by those who profit from destruction. The most Batmanian felt he could achieve was to slow the advance of the chainsaws and tractors.But the director-general of Brazil’s forest service feels there could be a chance at the Cop30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, next week, not just of an even fight, but perhaps a victory. There is one condition: world governments must rally behind an initiative being launched by the host nation – the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF). Continue reading...
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around usAs world leaders gather in Brazil this year for Cop30 – the first Amazonian Cop – it’s worth doing a quick reality check on how we are collectively tracking to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.Despite 30 years of UN climate summits, about half of the carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution has been emitted since 1990. Incidentally, 1990 was the year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the global authority on climate change science – released its First Assessment Report confirming the threat of human-caused global warming. As scientists all over the world prepare the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report, we do so knowing that our work is still being overshadowed by politics. Despite all the well-intentioned half-measures, the truth is that the world is still disastrously off track to limit dangerous climate change.Dr Joëlle Gergis is an award-winning climate scientist and writer from the University of Melbourne. She served as a lead author on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on the Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report Continue reading...
Droughts and heatwaves causing water in some areas to reach 41C, killing fish and endangered dolphins, say researchersAmazonian lakes are being transformed into simmering basins hotter than spa baths as severe heatwaves and drought grip the region, research shows.The temperature of one lake exceeded 40C (104F) as water levels plummeted under intense sunlight and cloudless skies. The extreme heat triggered mass die-offs among endangered Amazon river dolphins and fish, which cannot survive in such high temperatures. Continue reading...
As a majority of global citizens call for bold climate change policies, a new push for information integrity aims to neutralize the climate denial that has thwarted ambitious action.
Ahead of the UN climate conference in Brazil, international leaders including Germany's Merz and Brazil's Lula are meeting to discuss climate action. Experts say they should reaffirm their ambition to curb emissions.
The calls for action on opening day stood in sharp contrast to the position of the President Trump, who has called global warming a “con job.”
The climate-friendly ride, part of a fleet assembled to shuttle delegations to the gathering in Brazil, sent a clear signal: China is making inroads in Latin America.
Nations were poised to approve the first fee on pollution from ships. That’s when the Trump administration began the threats.
World leaders, gathering in Brazil, will try to agree on new, more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gases.
Diplomats and leaders from around the world are gathering on the edge of the Amazon rainforest for annual talks on how to limit global warming.
Climate change enabled the storm to churn faster and grow more quickly, a rapid analysis found.
