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Can a country so key to the global oil and gas trade help broker a deal that accelerates the end of fossil fuels?
Deals were agreed but with crucial elements missing.
This needs to be the Cop of implementation. We already have enough paperwork and knowledge, now it’s time to put those insights into practice and make change happen.
An insider explains the Alliance of Small Island States and what’s made it so effective.
From Paris in 2015 to Belem in Brazil in 2025, soil is slowly becoming part of climate policy but more can be done.
Cop30 will have 50,000 delegates. But bigger Cops are not better Cops.
Brazil’s Amazon COP30 climate summit will test if a resource-based nation can lead on climate action. It’s a dilemma Australia also faces.
Many say UN climate summits are pointless. They’re wrong.
Experts explain the tension between stability and politicisation in climate governance.
The Brazilian Cop30 presidency has a critical role to play as mediator and bridge builder to increase the collective ambition of governments.
A review of countries’ new climate pledges shows who is leading efforts to protect the climate their economies were built on and who is sliding.
The International Energy Agency expects global renewable energy capacity to double by 2030, even with lower growth in the US, but fossil fuels still dominate.
Australia and Turkey are locked in a contest to host the global COP31 climate summit. What could Albanese offer Australia’s rival to retire?
Trump’s efforts haven’t sunk global efforts to fight climate change – instead, new leaders are stepping up and working together, even within the US.
Peter Dutton says co-hosting the 2026 UN climate summit is ‘madness’. But Australia would be mad to miss out on the benefits, including investment in renewables.
Missing money, Saudi wrecking, methane pledges and more.
Australia and Pacific nations won’t know until June next year if they’re hosting the COP31 climate talks. But with tens of thousands of people potentially coming, they need to start planning now.
COP29 shows how the climate fight depends on an interconnected ecosystem of governments and corporations.
In our race to cool the planet, we must not compromise the ecosystems on which we depend.
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Lecturer in Climate Change, Politics and Society, University of Bristol
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Professor of Practice in Climate Policy, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Environmental Politics, Cardiff University
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Distinguished Blue Planet Prize Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Founding Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis
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