The Latest Breaking News from COP30

"Belem is ready," Brazilian officials have insisted ahead of the COP30 gathering in November -- but eye-watering lodging costs in the northern city have panicked many would-be attendees.

Brazil sold exploration rights to 19 oil and gas blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river Tuesday, at the start of an auction slammed by environmentalists months before the country is to host the COP30 climate summit.

Campaigners, MEPs and experts made pleas from UNOC3 for oceans to be protected at the climate summit in Brazil.

Sale covering 56,000 square miles to go ahead despite opposition Indigenous and environmental groups

Brazil explicitly included ocean-based actions for the first time in its most recently submitted national climate plan.

The 320 climate projects analysed were found to have potential yields of about €1 trillion in projected returns over a decade.

Brazil, set to host the COP30 climate conference later this year, lost the largest area of tropical forest in 2024.

Amazon Catholics say the new pope is needed at COP30 in Brazil later this year.

Tariffs and environmental cuts will make meeting challenging, says summit president André Corrêa do Lago

Developed countries pressed to submit national plans well before Cop30 as time runs out to avoid 1.5C temperature rise

With 2024 confirmed as the hottest year on record, pressure is mounting on all countries to step up their climate commitments. In just over six months, world leaders will convene in Brazil for Cop30. Its president, André Corrêa do Lago, has warned the era of empty promises is over, but…