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The upcoming 31st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP31) represents a watershed moment in international climate policy, in which the global community moves from the phase of (viac…)

The integrity of climate change information represents an approach to consistent, reliable and evidence-based data, which are essential for raising public awareness and building trust in climate policies. Without accurate information, there is no (viac…)

Global climate summits often leave a sense of disappointment and missed opportunities. But the COP30 summit in Belém, while problematic in many ways, serves as a critical diagnosis of our fight against climate change. An analysis of the events in Belém reveals (viac…)

Australia withdrew its bid to host the annual COP31 event because the required consensus was not reached. According to UN rules, the right to host COP 2026 falls to a group of countries including Western (viac…)

Climate summit COP30 in Belém, Brazil, set right in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, was different from the start. Quickly dubbed the „COP of Truth“ by media and observers, it signaled a fundamental shift from promises and (viac…)

One of the most important climate summits of the decade is coming up in the Brazilian city of Belém – COP30. This summit, dubbed the „Amazon COP,“ is intended to be a turning point where the world finally moves from promises to concrete action. Ten years after the Paris Agreement (viac…)

The COP30 conference, taking place in Belém, Brazil, is traditionally seen as the primary forum for addressing greenhouse gas emissions. However, in addition to climate goals, the protection of nature and biodiversity is also a key topic, (viac…)

Shortly before the start of the crucial COP30 negotiations in Brazil, tech billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates dropped a “narrative grenade” on the climate policy discourse by publishing a sweeping memorandum. This (viac…)

The thirtieth United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (“COP30”) is scheduled to take place in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025. This event represents a key opportunity to renew and escalate ambitions (viac…)

The Commission welcomes the agreement reached by Member States on the EU's ambitious new nationally determined contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement. Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Brazil (viac…)

Diplomats from the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) are under intense time pressure to quickly agree on a 10-year target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The decision must be made before the (viac…)

On 24 October 2025 in Brussels, leaders of the 27 EU Member States met to discuss ambitions for climate targets — especially as the important COP30 summit in Brazil (11-22 November 2025) approaches. The aim is to (viac…)

As global economies prepare for the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Belem, Brazil, this November, we’ve put together a simple guide to the climate terms you’re most likely to encounter.  (More on iigcc.org)

The next 30th climate summit COP30 will take place from 10 to 21 November 2025 in Belém, BrazilThis summit comes at a time of deepening climate crisis and following urgent warnings from scientists that crossing the global (viac…)

Bonn, September 3, 2025 – Governments must submit their new national plans to reduce planet-warming emissions and strengthen climate resilience as soon as possible, the UN climate chief urged. This came less than a month before (viac…)

Brazil, the host of the upcoming COP30 climate conference, issued a statement on Saturday, August 19. urgent appeal all countries: submit updated and ambitious climate plans (NDCs – Nationally Determined Contributions) by 25 September, (viac…)

From November 10 to 21, 2025 the world will turn to Belem, a city at the mouth of the Amazon in the Brazilian state of Pará, where the 30th UN Climate Conference (COP30). For the first time in history, the climate summit is taking place live in the Amazon, which symbolically (viac…)

The Bonn climate talks in June 2025 brought important progress in Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP), which is welcome news after the stagnation at COP29 in Baku. Activists called the move a “vital impulse” and (viac…)

Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva has proposed that this year's COP30 climate summit, to be held in Belém, lead to the creation of a a roadmap for a “planned and just transition” to end the use of fossil fuelsThis (viac…)

Negotiators finally get to work in Bonn, two days late after a heated argument on the agenda that has delayed discussions at the UN's biannual climate talks. But with news this week that the world is quickly spending its carbon budget to limit warming to 1.5°C, there is clearly no time to spare.

What to do with it? One obvious option is to accelerate work on fulfilling the promises that governments made back in 2023, namely by justly transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, tripling the share of renewable energy sources by 2030, and halting and reversing forest loss this decade.

While negotiators gathered in rooms by the Rhine this morning, COP30 President André Aranha Corrêa do Lago issued his fourth open letter, in which he called on governments to deliver on what they had agreed to in the global assessment , and proposed a new, more coherent approach to organizing the efforts of everyone else, including civil society and businesses.

This, he wrote, can be seen as "globally designated contribution" (GDC) , which complements national climate action plans. This range of efforts will be developed under six key "axes", including the transformation of energy, industry and transport; caring for forests and oceans; and greener food systems and agriculture.

The COP30 team told reporters that it wants to focus on to put into practice the approximately 400 initiatives announced at recent COP conferences, and not to strive for more , reports our news editor Joe Loe.

Climate policy experts welcomed the move but warned against assuming that the new, simplified approach "will be sufficient to respond to the obvious crisis that we need to address in the negotiations."

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