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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.

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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.

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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.

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Why Bill Gates’ climate memo is being celebrated by skeptics while frustrating scientists

Shortly before COP30 talks begin in Brazil, tech billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates has launched a “narrative grenade” into the discourse of climate politics by publishing a lengthy memo calling for a rethink of how the climate crisis is framed and addressed.

The Conversation

Prince William tells Cop30 'courage and unwavering commitment' needed to tackle climate crisis

The Prince of Wales made a landmark speech at the global climate summit in the Amazon in Brazil

Evening Standard

Warning over 1.5C climate goal as 2025 set to be among hottest years on record

A temporary overshoot of the 1.5C climate target virtually impossible to avoid, scientists have said.

Evening Standard

Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit

UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’

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Bill Gates got climate communication right. Let's focus on saving lives, not spreading fear

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

Fortune

Triple-whammy of hottest ever years risks ‘irreversible damage’, says UN

Experts say 2023, 2024 and 2025 the three hottest years in 176 years of records, with 1.5C Paris agreement target now ‘virtually impossible’

The Guardian - UK

Progress but uneven: Energy transition reality check

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

Fortune

Six pieces of data that give hope for the future of the climate

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

The Independent UK

First Thing: Still a chance to return to 1.5C climate goal, experts say

As world leaders gather in Brazil for climate talks, data suggests current plans would lead to devastating heating. Plus, Zohran Mamdani, the New York mayor-elect, introduces his all-female transition team

The Guardian - UK

PM to admit consensus is gone but UK ‘all in’ on net zero at Cop30

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

Evening Standard

As the Paris climate agreement turns ten, it’s showing its age

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.

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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.

The Independent UK

UN climate summit kicks off in Brazil's Amazon with hopes for action despite US absence

World leaders are gathering in a coastal city in the Brazilian Amazon for the U.N.'s annual climate summit

Radio France Internationale

World leaders face Amazon reckoning on a decade of climate promises

World leaders arrive in the Brazilian Amazon on Thursday for a high-stakes test of global climate promises, with vulnerable nations demanding far greater financial support and scientists warning the world is still veering off track.

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