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'New hope' for climate after COP summit wraps up

Environment groups are welcoming a fresh commitment to phase out fossil fuels despite what they say was an underwhelming finish to the 2025 UN climate summit.

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

It wasn’t a comfortable process for the tens of thousands of delegates trying to hash out progress on climate change on the edge of the Amazon in Belém, Brazil. I experienced the challenges of the United Nations COP30 climate talks firsthand.

The Conversation

Takeaways from the outcome of UN climate talks in Brazil

After two weeks of negotiations, this year’s United Nations climate talks have ended with what critics are calling a weak compromise

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Compromises, voluntary measures and no mention of fossil fuels: key points from Cop30 deal

A deal is welcome after talks nearly collapsed but the final agreement contains small steps rather than leaps

The Guardian - UK

Miliband says Cop30 was ‘step forward’ despite lack of explicit fossil fuel plan

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said he ‘would have preferred a more ambitious agreement’ at Cop30 in Brazil.

Evening Standard

End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff

Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal

The Guardian - UK

Miliband urges Cop30 to find ‘creative’ routes to roadmap on phasing out fossil fuel

UK energy secretary says UN climate talks must find way to keep proposals alive despite significant resistance

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At UN climate conference, some activists and scientists want more talk on reforming agriculture

Many of the activists, scientists and government leaders at United Nations climate talks underway in Brazil have a beef: They want more to be done to transform the world’s food system

The Independent UK

ConocoPhillips' 3.84% Dividend Yield Implies COP Stock Could be 24% Undervalued

ConocoPhillips Inc. raised its dividend by 7.7%, giving COP stock a 3.84% annual yield. That is well over its historical average, implying COP could be worth 24% more. One way to play it is to short out-of-the-money put options.

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Brazil's final text proposal at UN climate talks draws fire as weak — after a real fire at the COP30

Brazil has offered several texts for this year’s last day of the U.N. climate talks but what was supposed to be nearly final proposals on key contentious issues failed to explicitly mention fossil fuels — the cause of global warming

The Independent UK

Cop30: countries still far apart as climate talks overrun – as it happened

Summit president André Corrêa do Lago issued plea to preserve Paris agreement with countries unable to reach compromise on scheduled final day

The Guardian - UK

Standoff at COP30 as conservatives push to equate gender with biological sex

Negotiations over the strengthened Gender Action Plan (GAP) have entered a tense phase at the COP30 climate summit after disputes broke out on how to define gender. A conservative bloc is seeking to reduce the definition to biological sex — a shift that would erase trans and non-binary people from…

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Cop30 conference centre evacuated as fire breaks out – as it happened

UN secretary-general António Guterres earlier used speech at Belem summit to urge countries to find compromises in final hours of negotiations

The Guardian - UK

Why the Cop summit is failing to win over the residents of its host city

ON THE GROUND: Residents of Belém’s favelas – or ‘baixadas’ as they are known here – tell Nick Ferris of the daily climate challenges they are facing and explain why they are sceptical that Cop30 will really help them

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Turkey will host COP31, Australia will play a role. So where does that leave the Pacific?

After a long and deadlocked bidding process for Australia and Pacific Island nations to co-host the UN climate summit (COP31), the event will now be hosted by Turkey. Australia’s Climate Minister, Chris Bowen, will reportedly take a key role as “COP President for negotiations”. More details are yet to emerge.

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Australia has dropped its bid to host the COP31 climate talks. Here’s what happened – and what’s next

At the last possible minute, Australia has backed away from its bid to host the United Nations COP31 climate summit next year in Adelaide alongside Pacific nations.

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NGOs lament missed 'COPportunity' for SA and climate

Pacific advocates hope their climate ambitions can still be achieved from the wreckage of Australia's bid to host the COP31 summit.

The Guardian - AU

Turkey to host Cop31 climate conference after Australia drops push to hold it in Adelaide

Fortnight-long event to be held in Antalya but Australian climate change minister Chris Bowen expected to lead the negotiations

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Guterres and Lula to push negotiators at COP30 as deadline looms

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are jumping into the United Nations climate talks as they get to crunch time

The Guardian - AU

Researchers say real impact of deforestation being hidden in Australia’s official figures by ‘sleight of hand’

Report commissioned by conservationists suggests some recorded new growth is misclassified or otherwise not equivalent to losses in species-heavy forests

The Guardian - UK

Cop30: Scientists warn countries must act decisively to protect people and life or risk ‘suffering for billions’ – as it happened

As president Lula tries to find common ground between negotiating countries, planetary scientists say emissions must be urgently cut

The Guardian - UK

More than 80 countries at Cop30 join call for roadmap to fossil fuel phase-out

Countries from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Pacific and Europe plead for transition to be central outcome of talks

The Guardian - UK

‘Without our expertise, mistakes get made’: the Cop30 campaign to give workers a voice

In this week’s newsletter: The green transition’s effect on workers is a hot topic, as advocates push for those working at the frontlines to have a say in climate policy

The Guardian - US

More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists have taken part in Cop30, investigation finds

Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit

The Guardian - UK

Bam! What is the acronym everyone is talking about at Cop30?

Securing the Belém Action Mechanism is a top priority for climate justice advocates at the talks in Brazil

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