The Latest Breaking News on Geopolitics, backsliding and progress: here’s what to expect at this year’s COP30 global climate talks

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 Prime Minister was speaking at the Cop30 summit in Belem, Brazil.

I'm the dean of the nation's first climate school and I know that fear-based messaging has outlived its usefulness.

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As COP30 kicks off in Belém, leaders need take on board the fact that this transition is nuanced and dynamic.

IN FOCUS: The world may not be on track to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of keeping the temperature rise ‘well below’ 2C – but there remain grounds for hope as the international Cop30 summit gets underway. Nick Ferris reports from Belem, in Brazil

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The Prime Minister will staunchly defend his Government’s clean energy agenda on economic grounds.

Ten years after the world agreed on an historic framework for climate action, the very features that made the Paris agreement possible are now holding it back. Designed to foster cooperation, it has instead become a system for forging agreement rather than delivering change.