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    Interactive: Who wants what at the COP30 climate change summit
    Climate ActionNovember 12, 2025

    Interactive: Who wants what at the COP30 climate change summit

    Excerpt from carbonbrief.org COP30 in Belém will see them discuss issues including the best ways to track progress on adaptation and how to pursue a global “just transition”. Some of the event’s most important topics, such as countries’ new climate targets and raising international climate finance to $1.3tn, will officially take place outside the formal negotiations. Nevertheless, these issues will likely drive much of the COP30 narrative. In order to track parties’ positions on key negotiating points at the summit, Carbon Brief has analysed nearly 100 submissions to the UN and captured them in the interactive table below.

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    World has 'the tools' to unlock $1.3 trillion in climate finance - COP30 report
    Climate ActionNovember 12, 2025

    World has 'the tools' to unlock $1.3 trillion in climate finance - COP30 report

    Excerpt from gmanetwork.com PARIS, France — The world has all the tools in hand to provide $1.3 trillion in climate finance to vulnerable nations, from debt relief to taxes and better coordination, said a "roadmap" released Wednesday ahead of the COP30 summit in Brazil. The 81-page report was released by the heads of last year's COP29 conference in Azerbaijan and the upcoming COP30 gathering in Belem, Brazil, as leaders prepare to meet in the Amazonian city this week.

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    COP30 Update - Super Pollutants Take Center Stage
    Climate ActionNovember 12, 2025

    COP30 Update - Super Pollutants Take Center Stage

    Photo credit: ccacoalition.org Excerpt from ccacoalition.org The 30th Conference of Parties (COP30), officially opened yesterday in Belém, Brazil. The eyes of the world are now firmly on this year’s climate negotiations, with a heavy focus on climate finance expected to dominate conversations over the following 2 weeks. This year, formal negotiations were preceded by the C40 World Mayors Summit, concurrent with the COP30 World Leaders Summit (WLS). Read here some reflections from Martina Otto, Head of the CCAC Secretariat. On the margins of WLS, Brazil, China, and the United Kingdom co-hosted a “COP30 Summit on Methane and Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases”, the third such gathering held at a COP, following the inaugural summit at COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and a COP29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. As part of the summit, Marina Silva, Brazil’s Minister of the Environment and Climate, alongside the Rt. Hon. Ed Miliband, UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, announced the launch of a multi-year “Super Pollutant Country Action Accelerator” under the CCAC, to fast-track deep reductions in super pollutants across 30 developing countries by 2030. It will establish dedicated National Super Pollutant Units, modelled on the successful Montreal Protocol’s Ozone Units, to embed sustained action within government institutions.

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    10 years after Paris, the world is failing its climate targets. Can COP30 change things?
    Climate ActionNovember 11, 2025

    10 years after Paris, the world is failing its climate targets. Can COP30 change things?

    Excerpt from rappler.com Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva promised a “COP of truth” in the Amazon rainforests. Ten years since the Paris Agreement, when the world agreed to keep global warming in check to avoid catastrophic consequences, and 30 years since climate negotiations began, countries are failing to reach targets. “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,” Lula said.

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    EU agrees weakened climate target in final-hour deal for COP30
    Climate ActionNovember 10, 2025

    EU agrees weakened climate target in final-hour deal for COP30

    Excerpt from reuters.com BRUSSELS, Nov 5 (Reuters) - EU climate ministers agreed a 2040 climate change target in the early hours of Wednesday after watering down the goal in last-minute negotiations, as they raced to clinch the deal before the U.N. COP30 summit in Brazil. After negotiating late into Tuesday night, climate ministers from European Union countries approved in a public vote a compromise to cut emissions 90% by 2040, from 1990 levels, but with flexibilities to weaken this aim.

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    Pacific Youth Activists to demand end to fossil fuels and Climate reparations at COP30
    Climate ActionNovember 10, 2025

    Pacific Youth Activists to demand end to fossil fuels and Climate reparations at COP30

    Excerpt from pasifika.news With the 30th United Nations Climate Change conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, looming closer, Vishal Prasad, the Director of the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC) and other activists are set to make their mark on the world stage yet again. The PISFCC were responsible for demanding legal accountability for climate change at the International Court of Justice. What unfolded was the biggest case in history and the delivery of the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on states’ obligations in relation to climate change. This historical landmark decision has major implications for accountability, ambition, and climate diplomacy heading into COP30.

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    Fiji launches third national climate plan ahead of COP30
    Climate ActionNovember 10, 2025

    Fiji launches third national climate plan ahead of COP30

    Photo Credit: Ministry of Environment and Climate Change via fbcnews.com.fj Excerpt from fbcnews.com.fj The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change has officially launched its third Nationally Determined Contribution, a key climate plan that shows the country’s strong commitment to tackling climate change. This announcement comes just before the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, where world leaders will meet to discuss urgent climate action. Ministry of Environment and Climate Change permanent secretary, Sivendra Michael, stressed the need for stronger global efforts to reduce emissions, increase funding for countries most affected by climate change, and include the ocean in all climate discussions.

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    Climate finance must reach Indigenous communities at COP30 & beyond (commentary)
    Climate ActionNovember 10, 2025

    Climate finance must reach Indigenous communities at COP30 & beyond (commentary)

    Excerpt from news.mongabay.com As the COP30 climate summit in the Amazon draws near, pressure is mounting to get funding directly into the hands of Indigenous and local community organizations who are the frontline defenders of the world’s rainforests. Donors are waking up to the powerful truth that funding Indigenous and local communities is one of the highest-impact investments we can make for forest protection and climate action. This momentum is encouraging. Still, the numbers tell a stark story. Indigenous and local communities protect 36% of the world’s intact tropical forests, yet receive less than 1% of international climate finance. This contradiction threatens global climate goals and leaves the most effective forest guardians without the resources they need. Behind this funding gap lie systemic barriers: rigid eligibility rules, donor requirements designed for large institutions, and administrative hurdles that shut out grassroots organizations. For decades, many intermediary organizations tried to bridge these gaps. Still, in practice, some evolved into permanent gatekeepers, unintentionally absorbing resources that could have more directly supported the organizations and communities they aimed to serve.

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    Small Island States sound the alarm as major polluters stall: What to expect from nations at COP30
    Climate ActionNovember 10, 2025

    Small Island States sound the alarm as major polluters stall: What to expect from nations at COP30

    Excerpt from brasildefato.com.br While major polluters continue to fall short on climate commitments, notably the United States, blocs of small nations such as the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis) will arrive at the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) demanding urgent action. “It is essential that the voices of Small Island Developing States are not only present, but central to the decisions that will determine our future,” warned Aosis in a letter addressed to COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago in June this year.

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