6 h. ago A flotilla kicks off the People's Summit for activists at UN climate talks

As United Nation climate talks get underway in Belem, a different kind of conference is kicking off: the People’s Summit, a gathering of activists, organizers, environmentalists and Indigenous groups from around the world

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20 h. ago Chaos at COP30 as indigenous protesters force their way into climate summit and clash with security guards

Dozens of Indigenous protesters forced their way into the COP30 climate summit venue on Tuesday and clashed with security guards at the entrance to demand climate action and forest protection.

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23 h. ago Security guards injured as Indigenous protesters barge into Cop30 climate summit

Indigenous community leaders express outrage at ongoing industrial developments in Amazon

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37 h. ago Traditional acai berry dishes surprise visitors to Brazil climate summit, no sugar added

Some acai berry lovers in Brazil for this week’s U.N. climate summit are in for a surprise when they taste the fruit popular around the world in smoothies and breakfast bowls

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40 h. ago Top UN official warns inaction on climate crisis ‘will never be forgiven’ as Cop30 opens in Brazil

Simon Stiell told ministers from nearly 200 countries in Belém that governments dragging their feet on cutting fossil fuel use would be held responsible for famines, conflicts, and economic turmoil

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41 h. ago 'A big scandal': Outrage over Brazil cutting down 100,000 Amazon rainforest trees to build road for Cop30

US President Donald Trump has criticised the building of a new highway in the Amazon for the Cop30 climate summit

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43 h. ago New £500 levy proposed for business class and private jet flyers at Cop30 climate summit

Exclusive: Airlines’ body dismisses the idea of premium levy as ‘crazy’ – while UN staff travel in business class

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49 h. ago Outrage as Amazon Rainforest is cleared of 100,000 trees to make way for climate summit

Both climate activists and skeptics have slammed the destruction of miles of the Amazon rainforest in order to build a road for a two-week climate change summit.

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56 h. ago Cop climate summit websites ‘produce more carbon than average sites’

Between 1995 and 2024 when the last Cop conference was held, average emissions from the websites had risen by more than 13,000%, according to data.

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3 d. ago Cop ahoy! Sailing up the Amazon to the climate summit – podcast

Jonathan Watts sets off on a three-day boat trip down the Amazon – with indigenous leaders, scientists, artists and more – to report on Cop30, the climate summit taking place this year in BrazilThis week, delegations from countries from all over the world are flying into Belem, Brazil, to attend Cop30, the world’s biggest climate summit.The Guardian’s global environment reporter Jonathan Watts, however, had a different idea – to take the slow road. Or, in fact, the slow boat – a three-day journey up the Amazon, across hundreds of kilometres, to arrive in Belem just in time. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Amid squabbles, bombast and competing interests, what can Cop30 achieve?

Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions“It broke my heart.” Surangel Whipps, president of the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, was sitting in the front row of the UN’s general assembly in New York when Donald Trump made a long and rambling speech, his first to the UN since his re-election, on 23 September.Whipps was prepared for fury and bombast from the US president, but what followed was shocking. Trump’s rant on the climate crisis – a “green scam”, “the greatest con job ever perpetrated”, “predictions made by stupid people” – was an unprecedented attack on science and global action from a major world leader. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Fossil fuel lobbying of SNP ministers trebled since Glasgow COP26 summit

Oil and gas representatives have held more than 300 meetings with SNP ministers since November 2021 climate summit, a Sunday Mail probe found.

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4 d. ago Lula’s balancing act: Cop30 Amazon summit juggles climate and social priorities

Brazil’s president welcomes world leaders while navigating divided government, promising action on deforestation and emissionsHow could the Tropical Forest Forever Facility tackle deforestation?Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has welcomed world leaders to Belém for the first climate summit in the Amazon, where conservationists hope he can be a champion for the rainforest and its people.But with a divided administration, a hostile Congress and 20th-century developmentalist instincts, this global figurehead of the centre left has a balancing act to perform in advocating protection of nature and a reduction of emissions. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot

Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hookLet’s begin with the fundamental problem: Bill Gates is a politics denier. Though he came to it late, he now accepts the realities of climate science. But he lives in flat, embarrassing denial about political realities. His latest essay on climate, published last week, treats the issue as if it existed in a political vacuum. He writes as if there were no such thing as political power, and no such thing as billionaires.His main contention is that funds are very limited, so the delegates at this month’s climate summit in Brazil should direct money away from “near-term emissions goals” towards climate “adaptation” and spending on poverty and disease.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Less arguing, more action: will Brazil’s unorthodox approach to Cop30 work?

Host uses Indigenous concepts and changes agenda to help delegates agree on ways to meet existing climate goalsShipping containers, cruise ships, river boats, schools and even army barracks have been pressed into service as accommodation for the 50,000 plus people descending on the Amazon: this year’s Cop30 climate summit is going to be, in many ways, an unconventional one.Located in Belém, a small city at the mouth of the Amazon river, the Brazilian hosts have been criticised for the exorbitant cost of scarce hotel rooms and hastily vacated apartments. Many delegations have slimmed down their presence, while business leaders have decamped to hold their own events in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Ed Miliband urges progressives to unite around green policies ahead of Cop30

World leaders are gathering in the Amazon city of Belem for the United Nations climate summit against a gloomy background.

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5 d. ago Over 100 US leaders to attend Cop30 climate summit as Trump stays away

Dozens of US state and local leaders will be at talks in Brazil with president’s team expected to send no representativesThe Trump administration appears to be sitting out this month’s United Nations climate talks known as Cop30, telling the Guardian it will not deploy any high-level representatives to the negotiations.But dozens of US subnational leaders attend to promote their climate efforts. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Another slip Keir? Starmer narrowly escapes a tumble as he arrives at COP30... before telling summit that Labour is 'all in' on Net Zero despite admitting climate consensus 'is gone'

In a speech to the global gathering in Belem, Brazil , the Prime Minister vowed the UK under his Government would be 'doubling down' on its climate commitments.

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6 d. ago Prince William warns the world is 'edging dangerously close to climate disaster' as he speaks on the 'privilege' of representing the King on a global stage for the first time at COP30 in Brazil

William, 43, is representing King Charles at the COP30 United Nations Climate Summit in Belém, the gateway to Brazil 's Amazon rainforest.

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6 d. ago 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

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