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Policy & Finance

This year’s climate talks saw real progress – just not on fossil fuels

COP30 delivered gains on climate finance and forests but stalled on fossil fuel phaseout – exposing both the limits of consensus talks and the growing role of action outside negotiations.
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Policy & Finance

Business unusual: UN must push for private sector accountability

The United Nations must clearly define the responsibility of the world's most powerful businesses to help tackle global challenges.
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Carbon & Climate

COP30 must do good, not just avoid harm

As the host of this year's UN Climate Change Conference, Brazil seeks to make COP30 the “COP of implementation.” Translating commitments into robust action should include providing indigenous peoples with direct access to predictable and sustainable finance, and treating them as equal partners, rather than as beneficiaries.
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Carbon & Climate

How to measure climate progress

Ending reliance on oil, coal, and gas, and embracing technologies that will only improve and become cheaper over time, is not just smart climate policy. It is the best way to improve economic competitiveness and human prosperity for decades to come.

All #COP Opinion

15 November 2025

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Policy & Finance

Governments are failing environmental defenders. COP30 must act

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Policy & Finance

Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals

13 November 2025

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Carbon & Climate

From Rio to Belém: The long unravelling of climate consensus

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Carbon & Climate

Climate justice is no longer an aspiration but a legal duty

12 November 2025

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Policy & Finance

Businesses can’t build resilience without nature strategies

11 November 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Geopolitics, backsliding and progress: What to expect at COP30 climate talks

10 November 2025

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Policy & Finance

What COP30 must do

3 October 2025

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Energy

Clean energy is inevitable despite Trump

29 September 2025

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Carbon & Climate

What a China-EU climate deal could do for the world

17 September 2025

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Policy & Finance

Ahead of COP30, philanthropy can unlock climate finance

16 September 2025

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Policy & Finance

Environmental crime worth billions is climate fight’s blind spot

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Policy & Finance

Can Europe and China forge a climate connection?

25 August 2025

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Policy & Finance

Climate finance is held back by rules from the financial crash

23 July 2025

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Policy & Finance

COP30 must make good on past climate commitments

22 July 2025

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Policy & Finance

Ahead of COP30, environmentalists risk freedom to defend nature

1 July 2025

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Energy

Vietnam's nuclear power revival: ambition or overreach?

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