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COP30: Pope Leo XIV urges ‘concrete actions’ on climate change
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Pope Leo XIV on Monday warned that climate change is accelerating faster than political will, urging world leaders at COP30 to take “concrete actions” before the window to keep warming below 1.5C closes. He called for unwavering global solidarity behind
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No, Amazon rainforest trees were not cut down for COP 30
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As COP 30 proceeds, Donald Trump and others continue to share the claim that 100,000 trees in the Amazon rainforest were chopped down to make way for a highway to the UN climate conference’s host city, Belem. But the claim is misleading, as we explain in
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Domingo, 16 de noviembre de 2025
Thousands march in indigenous-led protests outside COP30 summit
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Thousands of climate protesters marched through the Brazilian city of Belem on Saturday in a noisy, diverse and peaceful display to demand more action to protect the fate of the planet and vent their anger at governments and fossil fuel industries. Analy
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Ecuador: referendum on the presence of foreign military bases
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Ecuadoreans grappling with a surge in violent crime head to the polls on Sunday to decide whether to allow the return of foreign military bases — which President Daniel Noboa says are central to fighting organized crime - and whether they back convening
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The spectacle of animal migration across the world
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Footage showing the migrations of birds, mammals and even crustaceans is flooding social media. From the seas to the skies, animals from Norway to Australia are undertaking journeys -- some in search of warmer climates, others looking for a more favourab
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Tariffs, climate change, energy prices... tough times for France's winemakers
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Winegrowers from southern France are planning a major protest in Béziers this Saturday. The location matches where the great wine revolt of 1907 began – one of the largest social movements of the 20th century in France, when southern growers protested ag
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Iran launches cloud seeding operations to induce rainfall as severe drought deepens
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Iran's government has begun cloud seeding operations over the nation's largest lake, which has largely dried out due to the Islamic republic's worst drought in decades. Iran announced last year that it had developed its own technology to help trigger rai
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Sábado, 15 de noviembre de 2025
Fighting climate change with imaginative methods in East Timor
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As countries gather in Brazil for the COP 30 climate change conference, FRANCE 24 travels to East Timor, where global warming is wreaking havoc on the fishing industry. The isolated island nation and its 1.4 million people face coastal erosion, rising se
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Thousands march at COP30 to demand end to deforestation and fossil fuels
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Thousands of people thronged the streets of the Amazonian city of Belem in Brazil on Saturday, urging COP30 negotiators to take urgent action against climate change and halt the use of fossil fuels and the devastating deforestation of the Amazon Rainfore
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Delhi’s pollution is a crisis of democracy as much as public health, citizens say
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Citizens in the Indian capital of New Delhi say that the government’s inaction against the pollution-driven public health crisis signals both a struggling democracy and hypocrisy, as India leads talks on climate action in the Global South at COP30.
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Viernes, 14 de noviembre de 2025
The Bright Side: Giant web discovery reveals 'constant party' life of cohabiting spider species
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Scientists have discovered what they believed to be the world’s largest-known spider web in a Balkan cave, where two different species cohabit in an enormous colony of more than 100,000 spiders. The rare behaviour is reshaping assumptions about how arach
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'We refuse to be sacrificed': Indigenous groups disrupt COP30 summit in Brazil
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Indigenous protesters blocked the main entrance of COP30 in Brazil on Friday, demanding stronger climate action and direct recognition of their rights.
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COP30 in Brazil & the Global South: Tackling climate change without the US
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The week, we head to Belem in Brazil where COP30, the UN's annual climate summit, is taking place. As rich nations drag their feet, will the Global South take the lead in climate action? We put the question to our guest, Charra Tesfaye Terfassa, economic
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Climate change killed his friend. Now he's seeking justice
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The effects of climate change are being felt around the world, with extreme weather events becoming more frequent and intense. According to recent estimates, climate inaction is on track to cost the global economy $38 trillion per year in damages within
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Vietnam's Mekong Delta threatened by rising sea levels
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Vietnam's Mekong Delta is under serious threat from climate change. The agricultural region, which produces half of the country’s food supply, is being hit hard by rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion, which devastate rice crops. The landscape is ch
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Indigenous protesters block entrance to COP30 climate summit in Brazil
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Dozens of Indigenous protesters blocked the front of the COP30 summit venue in Brazil on Friday morning, staging a sit-in that forced delegates to use a side entrance to resume their negotiations on tackling climate change.
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Mining giant BHP liable for Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, UK court says
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A British court ruled that global mining giant BHP is liable for the 2015 collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil. The event was the country's worst environmental disaster, unleashing a wave of toxic sludge that killed 19 people and polluted the length
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Jueves, 13 de noviembre de 2025
The Bright Side: Zanzibar’s women turn the tide with sponge farming
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Rising ocean temperatures have killed seaweed, depleted fish stocks and affected livelihoods in Tanzania's picturesque Zanzibar. Now sponge farming is helping turn the tide in one village, where women are earning a living by cultivating the marine organi
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Global fossil fuel emissions to hit record high in 2025, study says
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Global fossil fuel emissions are expected to reach an all-time high in 2025, a new report warned Thursday, adding that keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius is now effectively out of reach. The annual Global Carbon Budget study found that desp
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Tehran's drought, New Delhi's pollution: Two capitals at imminent risk of becoming unliveable
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PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, November 13, 2025: The French and Belgian dailies mark 10 years since 130 people were killed in the Paris terror attacks. What trauma have the victims suffered? The Belgian daily Le Soir, meanwhile, looks at how the Molenbeek nei
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Miércoles, 12 de noviembre de 2025
Climate crisis is a health crisis, WHO chief says
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The WHO said Wednesday that it was time for formal negotiations on health at the COP climate summits, saying the climate crisis was also a health crisis. Speaking from the COP30 in Bélem, Brazil, Estelle Willie, Director of Health Policy at the Rockefell
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🚨 #COP30: Rare #clashes between #Indigenous protesters and #security guards
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💥 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.
📣 Some waved flags with slogans calling for land rights o
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The crucial role of Congo's rainforest
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At COP30 in Brazil, leaders are highlighting the Congo rainforest’s crucial role as the world’s largest carbon sink. Despite storing 91 billion tons of carbon, it faces rapid deforestation, with the DRC losing 590,000 hectares in 2024. Calling for climat
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Martes, 11 de noviembre de 2025
Indigenous protesters clash with security at COP30 summit in Brazil
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Dozens of Indigenous protesters stormed the COP30 climate summit venue in Belem, Brazil, on Tuesday – clashing with security guards at the entrance as they demanded greater access to negotiations and a stronger voice in forest management.
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Will China replace the US as a climate action leader?
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PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, November 11, 2025: First, US President Donald Trump's latest pardons are a worrying signal for next year's midterm elections. Next, China's carbon emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months amid a renewable energy boom
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Typhoon Fung-wong nears Taiwan as Philippines death toll climbs
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Typhoon Fung-wong lashed Taiwan with harsh rains Tuesday after killing at least 25 people and displacing some 1.4 million people across the Philippines. The weakening tropical storm is expected to make landfall in Taiwan on Wednesday.
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Lunes, 10 de noviembre de 2025
COP30: Has Bill Gates become a climate denier?
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The UN climate talks opened this Monday in Brazil, with world leaders set to discuss new ways to tackle global warming. Meanwhile, the spread of climate disinformation has doubled since July. Among the viral claims circulating online: that even Bill Gate
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COP30: 10 years after the Paris Agreement, what has changed ?
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Valérie Dekimpe, France24 Environment Editor, has more.
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Indigenous leaders join COP30 climate summit as it opens in Brazil
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Countries will be joined by Indigenous leaders, who arrived Sunday evening by boat.
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COP30 climate talks begin in Brazil: leaders are taking place in Belem
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Jan Oniszko, our correspondant in Rio, has more.
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COP30 climate summit: 'We expect action and implementation,' head of WWF France says
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The head of the World Wide Fund for Nature France has told FRANCE 24 that the world needs action and implementation as world leaders meet in Brazil to decide how to combat climate change. The COP30 summit is getting underway 10 years after the landmark P
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Papers on COP30 summit and 'Trump's crusade against the Paris Agreement'
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PRESS REVIEW – Monday, November 10, 2025: The British front pages are all covering the crisis at the BBC. Next, the COP30 climate summit opens in Brazil as papers discuss who is attending and who isn't. Also, a football team of Afghan female refugees is
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COP30 kicks off with call for faster action, but without the US
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UN climate negotiations were expected to begin Monday at a meeting on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon, with leaders pushing for urgency, cooperation and acceleration after more than 30 years fighting to curb global warming by drastically reducing the ca
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Oil drilling to begin in part of Brazil's Amazon rainforest
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As the COP30 climate summit opens in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belem, Brazil is stepping up its race for oil. The government agency in charge of environmental protection recently authorised oil giant Petrobras to drill several oil wells at the mouth o
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COP30: France's Fontainebleau forest serves as ‘laboratory' for climate change adaptation
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France’s Fontainebleau forest – one of the world's first nature reserves – has felt the impacts of the climate crisis for many years. As the world’s nations meet for the COP30 climate talks, this forest just 60 kilometres southeast of Paris serves as a “
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Brazil’s Lula opens COP30 by urging ‘defeat’ of climate change deniers
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Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva opened COP30 on Monday, warning that climate change has already become a “tragedy of the present” and calling for a global effort to inflict “defeat on the deniers”. This year’s UN climate conference is taking
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'We have to face climate change' in the prism of a world 'wrecked' by conflicts and injustice
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As COP30 opens for the more than 190 countries participating, it's unclear what exactly world leaders would discuss and whether countries would even try to negotiate a final agreement. It's a hard sell in a year of fractious global politics. Brazil has s
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Domingo, 9 de noviembre de 2025
Philippines evacuates nearly a million as floodwaters rise and super typhoon nears
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The Philippines evacuated hundreds of thousands of people on Sunday as a super typhoon Fung-wong moved west towards the archipelago nation. The storm is set to bring wind and heavy rain to broad swathes of the country just one week after another typhoon,
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Philippines evacuates more than a million, at least two die as super typhoon nears
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The Philippines evacuated more than a million people on Sunday and at least two people died as super typhoon Fung-wong moved west towards the archipelago nation. The storm is set to bring wind and heavy rain to broad swathes of the country just one week
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Sábado, 8 de noviembre de 2025
Viernes, 7 de noviembre de 2025
Brazil’s BR-319 highway, a road to division in the heart of the Amazon
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As Brazil prepares to preside over the COP30 climate summit, the construction of a major highway is causing controversy. Authorised by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government, the BR-319 cuts through the heart of the Amazon rainforest. FRANCE 24
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Prince William's Brazil climate visit way to "shift the discussion away from the royal scandal"
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Brazil is hosting leaders from around the world ahead of COP30 starting November 10. Joining them is UK's Prince William, who hosted his "Earthshot" prize on November 6. The decade-long competition, launched in 2020, rewards five businesses for their sus
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ADIPEC 2025: Betting on sustained demand for oil
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This week, we're heading to the Abu Dhabi Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC 2025) for a conversation with Gaurav Sharma, an independent energy analyst also know on social media as the "Oilholic". As temperatures are rising, so is energy demand.
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The climate warriors: Women taking the lead
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As the COP30 climate talks kick off in Belém, Brazil, we showcase the women at the forefront of the fight against the climate crisis; a struggle that continues to affect women and children disproportionately. According to the UN, climate change could pus
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Trump's denial of crisis part of accusations on failure to tackle climate change
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With the COP30 opening on November 30, leaders are gathering in Brazil with one notable absence: US President Donald Trump. In their opening remarks, several leaders did denounce the president's spread of the idea that climate change is a hoax. Others de
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Macron and Lula warn of the dangers of climate disinformation ahead of COP30
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The host of the COP30 climate summit Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and French President Emmanuel Macron both warned against climate disinformation as world leaders gathered ahead of the annual UN Conference of Parties climate negotiations that open next week
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Caught between saving forests and drilling for oil, COP30 puts Lula’s contradictions on display
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Despite Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s much-vaunted ambitions to lead the fight against climate change and the deforestation that has ravaged the Amazon, Lula continues to look to the country’s oil industry to build Brazil’s wealth. He a
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Making it rain: Inside the United Arab Emirates' cloud-seeding programme
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With the COP30 climate summit under way in Brazil, we take you to the United Arab Emirates, one of the most arid countries in the world. There, the government has implemented a cloud-seeding programme to increase rainfall. While the UAE mainly uses seawa
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Jueves, 6 de noviembre de 2025
China 'focusing on solutions' to combat emissions and climate change, analyst says
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China is the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases but it is also spearheading a clean energy revolution, with more solar and wind capacity than the rest of the world combined. Speaking on FRANCE 24, Chris Aylett, Research Fellow in the Environment
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China 'focusing on solutions' to combat emissions and climate change, analyst says
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China is the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases but it is also spearheading a clean energy revolution, with more solar and wind capacity than the rest of the world combined. Speaking on FRANCE 24, Chris Aylett, Research Fellow in the Environment
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Brazil's contradictions: Can COP30 summit host truly go green?
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When it came to the Amazon, his predecessor was all for "chop, baby, chop". An easy act to follow if you're hosting the world for a climate summit. Since the return of Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, deforestation has continued but drastica
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COP30: Host city Belem is 'at the heart of the issues' and a gateway to the Amazon
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Brazil's port city of Belem will open its doors to 50,000 participants for the COP30 conference on climate change from November 10-21. While President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva intentionally picked the location to be “as close as possible to the heart of
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Narrative that too much "is being made of climate change is increasingly gaining ground"
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The COP30 global climate summit is opening on November 10, but the world's top polluters will not be attending - including the US, with Trump calling climate change a "socialist hoax". But while he would have been laughed at a few years ago, the narrativ
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What's on the agenda for COP30?
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With COP30 opening on November 10, what's on the agenda for world leaders? Aside from marking ten years since the Paris Agreement's ambitious targets - which the world is on track to miss -, the summit should also be looking into Brazilian President's am
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World leaders meet for pre-COP30 talks on funding fight against climate change
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Ahead of the global climate summit starting on November 10, pre-talks are starting in Brazil. This preview has three issues on the agenda: efforts to transition to sustainable energy; why the 2015 Paris agreement targets haven't been met; and setting up
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Climate action in a fractured world: Is there a will 'to cooperate in a world full of conflict'?
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As leaders gather for the UN climate summit in Brazil this month, three decades after the world's first annual climate conference, the data charting progress in the fight against global warming tells a sobering story. Despite years of negotiations, pledg
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How climate change is affecting our health, and what can be done about it
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Ahead of COP30, beginning November 6 in Belém, Brazil, experts say we are seeing unprecedented impacts of climate change on people's health. In light of this, some - including billionaire Bill Gates - are calling on world leaders to focus the climate tal
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COP30 faces early challenge as world's biggest polluters won't be attending
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With COP30 opening on November 10, world leaders are already meeting for talks in Brazil to prepare the global climate summit. But those of the world's three biggest polluters - China, India and the United States - will not be attending. They'll be talki
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Global South charting a greener future with climate solutions sparking economic growth
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As leaders gather for the UN climate summit in Brazil this month, three decades after the world's first annual climate conference, the data charting progress in the fight against global warming tells a sobering story. Despite years of negotiations, pledg
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World leaders gather in Brazil ahead of global climate summit
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World leaders are gathering in Brazil for the COP30 climate conference. Meetings will take place on November 6 and 7, while the official program starts on November 10. Around 50 heads of state expected to attend, with one notable absence: US President Do
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