How Belém built a new Just Transition mechanism
In contrast to COP30’s disappointing outcomes on finance, adaptation and fossil fuel transition, governments in Belém agreed to…
COP30 Agrees on Gender Action Plan: Now What?
Amid a failure to take concrete steps away from fossil fuels, the adoption of the Gender Action…
Essay: COP30 – five reasons the UN climate conference failed to deliver on its ‘people’s summit’ promise
In an article first published on The Conversation, SIMON CHIN-YEE, MARK MASLIN, AND PRITI PARIKH look at some…
Cave in Nevada Reveals 580,000 Years of Climate History
A one-meter core of calcite pulled from a cave of Devils Hole in Nevada has yielded a rare…
COP30 Kicked the Climate Can Down the Road Once Again
The large Guamá River and forty-two metropolitan islands frame the city of Belém, which is known as the…
The deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean are warming now too
Iceberg in the Arctic Ocean in September 2025 Photo: Henry Patton While it is well documented that global…
COP30: Between the Showcase of Green Capital and the Urgency of a Popular Ecological Transition Project
Mundano (Brazil), O Brigadista da Floresta (The Forest Firefighter), 2021. A 46-meter-high mural made of ashes collected from…
Climate crossroads: The Statesman – Asia News NetworkAsia News Network
NEW DELHI – As the world gathers at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, a familiar tension…
To defeat the global Goliaths devastating our planet, we must raise an army of Davids | Peter Lewis
The Cop30 climate talks have ended in Brazil with a collective shrug of the shoulders after the Goliaths…
Ice-capped peaks are shrinking as climate change warms their summits
As global temperatures rise, even the coldest, highest mountain peaks are showing signs of change. “An ice-capped peak…
The demands of young people went unfulfilled by the UN climate summit – mostly
At the UN climate conference Cop30 in Belém, Brazil, I asked some young climate activists and negotiators about…
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impact
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea…