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Indigenous Peoples at COP30 closing plenary

Carbon & Climate

COP30 secured a win for civil society – what can future hosts learn from Brazil’s approach to people’s participation?

Climate justice groups celebrated the establishment of a just transition mechanism in Belém, where the COP30 presidency engaged heavily with Indigenous Peoples. Can upcoming hosts Turkey, Australia and Ethiopia take this further?
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Carbon & Climate

Chinese mining companies need deeper dialogue with overseas communities

For a globally just energy transition, companies must meaningfully engage with communities.
COP30 closing plenary

Carbon & Climate

Global climate talks end with adaptation disagreements and no fossil fuel pledge

In a tense closing plenary, countries protested the lack of finance and new adaptation indicators, amid a failure to include fossil fuels in the final agreement. The hard-won inclusion of the just transition work programme was overshadowed by vague funding promises and the exclusion of critical minerals.
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Carbon & Climate

Down to the wire: COP30 negotiators labour over adaptation finance

Even as calls intensify for a fossil fuel roadmap, negotiators say talks are ‘melting’ on the core demand of tripling money for adaptation. Concerned, Singapore's environment minister pitched 'creative' alternatives to fund climate resilience.

All Africa News

18 November 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP30?

8 November 2025

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Policy & Finance

COP30: Could Brazil’s ‘Tropical Forest Forever’ fund help tackle climate change?

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Energy

In dry regions, waterless cleaning could make solar panels more efficient

4 November 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Q&A: Could COP30 spur fossil fuels' end? This activist thinks so

27 October 2025

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Waste

US e-waste exports to Asia may exceed US$1 billion, new report finds

10 October 2025

Sediment is visible near nickel mining operations on Kawe Island, Raja Ampat. Mining has discoloured the water in one of Indonesia’s most biodiverse marine areas.

Carbon & Climate

UN calls for transition metals mining finance reform to protect environment and human rights

2 October 2025

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Cities

‘Earth’s greatest champion’: Conservation world mourns Dr Jane Goodall

24 September 2025

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Policy & Finance

Q&A: Will China and the BRICS fill the ‘leadership gap’ on climate change?

15 September 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Warming due to tropical deforestation linked to 28,000 ‘excess’ deaths per year

27 August 2025

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Policy & Finance

Refugees worldwide face hunger as donors slash aid

25 August 2025

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Policy & Finance

Drugs for tropical diseases go to waste after US aid cuts

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Carbon & Climate

Scientists are ‘most trusted’ source of climate information in global-south survey

21 August 2025

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Cities

In data: Aid worker deaths hit record high, but 2025 could be worse

6 August 2025

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Cities

Third of ‘slum residents’ in global south are exposed to ‘disastrous’ flood risks

30 July 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1%

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Carbon & Climate

The air conditioning dilemma: Cooling homes heats the planet

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