‘Existential and urgent’: what impact will ICJ climate ruling have on Cop30? Decision by international court of justice hailed as a gamechanger for climate justice and accountability The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2025
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 The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2025
'We can't accept this': no time for climate COP out Global climate talks are taking place in the Amazon - the "lungs of the world" - as political headwinds threaten to blow multinational collaboration off course. AAP · Nov 8, 2025
From crisis to hope, the Amazon’s call for climate justice defines Cop30 From rising seas to raging floods, global leaders in Belem are confronting the human cost of climate change – and the chance to chart a fairer future. Radio France Internationale · Nov 8, 2025
Despite widespread belief in climate policy, disinformation still seeds doubt ahead of COP30 A new report looks at the climate disinformation online ecosystem Euronews · Nov 8, 2025
The UN climate summits are working – just not in the way their critics think It is easy to be cynical about the annual circus of UN climate negotiations that takes place at “Cop” – the Conference of the Parties to the UN’s climate convention. The Conversation · Nov 7, 2025
What is COP30, why does it matter and who will be at this year’s UN climate talks? The annual climate conference will take place in Belem, Brazil, from 10 November to 21 November. Euronews · Nov 7, 2025
‘Long on talk and short on action’: Papua New Guinea leader criticises Cop climate summits ahead of Brazil meeting James Marape skipped the meeting last year in protest but will attend Cop30 due to ‘encouraging signs’ on climate finance The Guardian - AU · Nov 7, 2025
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us The Guardian - AU · Nov 6, 2025
Cop30 begins in Brazil without world’s biggest polluters Speaking in Brazil, Keir Starmer admits ‘consensus is gone’ on climate crisis as governments across world row back on pledges to cut emissions The Independent UK · Nov 6, 2025
Geopolitics, backsliding and progress: here’s what to expect at this year’s COP30 global climate talks Along with delegates from all over the world, I’ll be heading to the United Nations COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belém. Like many others, I’m unsure what to expect. The Conversation · Nov 6, 2025
As global climate action threatens to stall, can Australia step up at COP30 in Brazil? Ten years on from the landmark Paris Agreement, countries have taken big strides in limiting emissions and the clean energy transition is accelerating rapidly. But geopolitical headwinds are growing and the damage bill for climate pollution is rising. Climate action hangs in the balance. The Conversation · Nov 6, 2025
PM vows to ‘double down’ on net zero after admitting ‘consensus is gone’ The Prime Minister was speaking at the Cop30 summit in Belem, Brazil. Evening Standard · Nov 6, 2025
Activists call for stronger climate commitments ahead of COP30 summit in Brazil Activists are calling on world leaders to strengthen goals at this year's convention to reverse the damaging impacts of global warming. Euronews · Nov 6, 2025
The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2025 UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
The Independent UK · Nov 5, 2025 Why Cop30 remains key to fighting the climate crisis IN FOCUS: There might be a sense that global progress on the climate crisis is flagging, but experts tell Nick Ferris that there remains real hope that the summit in Brazil can drive forward the climate agenda - so long as rich countries agree to budge on the key issue…
Euronews · Nov 5, 2025 Breath of relief as EU commits to CO2 reduction climate goal ahead of COP30 After months of political impasse, EU environment ministers backed the revision of the EU's climate law, paving the way for a decision on the global 2035 climate target to be presented next week at COP30.
The Conversation · Nov 5, 2025 The problem with ‘mega-COPs’: can a 50,000-person conference still tackle climate change? Governments from around the world will soon descend upon Belém, Brazil for the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and with them, many actors from industry and business, civil society, research institutions, youth organisations and Indigenous Peoples’ groups, to name…
The Independent UK · Nov 5, 2025 A decade after Brazil’s deadly dam collapse, Indigenous peoples demand justice on the eve of COP30 Ten years after Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, the Indigenous Krenak people are still mourning what they call “the death of the river.”
The Conversation · Nov 5, 2025 Children and young people at climate talks: seen, photographed, but not allowed to decide anything Children and young adults are very much involved in campaigning against the climate change that older generations have caused. The global youth climate justice movement uses protests, strikes and court cases to block fossil fuel expansion. But do they have any say in what their governments do to address climate…
The Independent UK · Nov 3, 2025 Away from Brazil’s ‘forest’ Cop30 – the fate of the Congo Rainforest hangs in the balance IN FOCUS: The Democratic Republic of Congo government has opened bids for oil and gas drilling across huge swathes of the country, raising fears that the world’s last great rainforest carbon sink could be destroyed, Nick Ferris reports
The Guardian - AU · Nov 3, 2025 Cop out? Anthony Albanese wants to host the next global climate summit – so why isn’t he attending this one? The Australian PM’s non-attendance at Cop30 would ‘raise questions’ about his seriousness about co-hosting Cop31 in Adelaide
The Independent UK · Oct 31, 2025 Brazil’s oil drive in run up to Cop30 slammed by indigenous activist INTERVIEW: Young indigenous activist Taily Terena, speaking to Nick Ferris as fires burn through the wetland environment where her people live, criticises the Brazilian government pushing for oil extraction at the same time as hosting world’s most important climate conference
Evening Standard · Oct 28, 2025 Hurricane Melissa shows need for climate action at Cop30 summit, Cabinet hears Jamaica’s government ordered evacuations from high risk areas and shut down the country’s airports as the Category 5 storm approached on Tuesday.
The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2025 ‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30