8 h. ago Rachel Reeves claims she wants to cut our bills but this is the hidden tax experts tell me is coming

Thank goodness energy and climate secretary Ed Miliband is out of the country for a while, heading up the UK's delegation at the COP30 climate talks in Brazil .

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9 h. ago Prince William hits out at big business for ‘falling short’ in tackling climate change

William blasted major companies for ‘not doing nearly enough’ after a tour of Brazil for the Earthshot Prize awards and Cop30 summit

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10 h. ago Prince Willliam hits out at big business for ‘falling short’ in tackling climate change

William blasted major companies for ‘not doing nearly enough’ after a tour of Brazil for the Earthshot Prize awards and Cop30 summit

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11 h. ago Prince George joins King and Queen at Festival of Remembrance

The Prince of Wales was not in attendance as he has spent the week in Brazil for the Earthshot Prize and COP30

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22 h. ago World leaders ignore Trump’s threats and remind us how high the stakes are at Cop30

President Donald Trump’s loud cries of a climate ‘con job’ are being ignored, Nick Ferris writes from Belém

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27 h. 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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36 h. ago Police officer warns Prince William's vicar friend that Bible verse on his van 'could be considered hate speech

Pastor Mick Fleming, who is a friend of the Prince and Princess of Wales, worked as a drug runner and debt collector and was once arrested on suspicion of murder.

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56 h. ago Prince William hails Kylie Minogue as she joins royal at £50m Earthshot Prize event in Brazil

PRINCE William hailed the Princess of Pop Kylie Minogue as she joined him at his £50million Earthshot Prize event in Brazil. Wills later also heaped praise on King Charles at the COP30 eco talks — in his first speech on behalf of his father. The 6ft 3in heir to the throne towered over 5ft Kylie...

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58 h. ago Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis

History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around usAs world leaders gather in Brazil this year for Cop30 – the first Amazonian Cop – it’s worth doing a quick reality check on how we are collectively tracking to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.Despite 30 years of UN climate summits, about half of the carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution has been emitted since 1990. Incidentally, 1990 was the year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the global authority on climate change science – released its First Assessment Report confirming the threat of human-caused global warming. As scientists all over the world prepare the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report, we do so knowing that our work is still being overshadowed by politics. Despite all the well-intentioned half-measures, the truth is that the world is still disastrously off track to limit dangerous climate...

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64 h. ago 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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64 h. ago Starmer reiterates net zero pledge after admitting ‘consensus is gone’

The Prime Minister was speaking at the Cop30 summit in Belem, Brazil.

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64 h. 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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64 h. 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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65 h. ago Prince William issues urgent warning about 'critical tipping point' in powerful speech

Prince William joined world leaders in the Brazilian city of Belem - the gateway to the Amazon - where he delivered a key speech written with the King, at the COP30 climate conference

Events

66 h. ago How could Tropical Forest Forever fund proposed at Cop30 tackle deforestation?

Scheme aims to raise $125bn to invest in bonds, with returns used to reward tropical countries for conservationAs a battle-scarred veteran of the war against nature, Garo Batmanian has spent 45 years trying to defend the Amazon rainforest. For most of that time, the resistance he leads has been outfunded and outgunned by those who profit from destruction. The most Batmanian felt he could achieve was to slow the advance of the chainsaws and tractors.But the director-general of Brazil’s forest service feels there could be a chance at the Cop30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, next week, not just of an even fight, but perhaps a victory. There is one condition: world governments must rally behind an initiative being launched by the host nation – the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF). Continue reading...

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67 h. ago Six pieces of data that give hope for the future of the climate

The world remains off-track from the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming rises to ‘well below’ 2C – but there remain grounds for hope as the international Cop30 gets underway. Nick Ferris reports from Belém, Brazil

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68 h. ago Six pieces of data to give hope about the future of the climate crisis

The world remains off-track from the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming rises to ‘well below’ 2°C – but there remain grounds for hope as the international COP30 gets underway. Nick Ferris reports from Belém, Brazil

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3 d. ago The era of fine speeches and good intentions is over. Brazil’s Cop30 will be about action | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

This is our message to world leaders: make this the ‘Cop of truth’, before people lose faithLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of BrazilToday, in the Brazilian Amazon, the Belém summit opens ahead of the 30th United Nations climate change conference (Cop30). I have convened world leaders in the days leading up to the conference so that we can all commit to acting with the urgency the climate crisis demands.If we fail to move beyond speeches into real action, our societies will lose faith – not only in the Cops, but in multilateralism and international politics more broadly. That is why I have summoned leaders to the Amazon: to make this the “Cop of truth”, the moment we demonstrate the seriousness of our shared commitment to the planet.Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of Brazil Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Climate aid too hard for poorest countries to access, warns top advisor ahead of Cop30

The former chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) negotiating group says too much red tape makes it very difficult for the world’s poorest nations to get the help they desperately need

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3 d. ago Starmer defies Farage on net zero as he vows 'full speed' on clean energy at COP30 summit in Brazil

World Leaders, Prince William, campaigners and academics are gathering at the climate change conference in Belem in the Amazon region

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