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    CREWS Launches 2030 Strategy at COP30 to Scale Early Warnings for All
    Climate ActionNovember 12, 2025

    CREWS Launches 2030 Strategy at COP30 to Scale Early Warnings for All

    Excerpt from wmo.int As climate extremes intensify, the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) Initiative today unveiled its 2030 Strategy: From Delivery to Transformation: Scaling CREWS’ Impact to 2030 at COP30 in Belém, Brazil. The Strategy outlines an ambitious goal: by 2030, all Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) will have the essential early warning and climate services needed to safeguard lives, livelihoods, and economies. “When a cyclone or flood hits, every second counts – early warnings turn each moment into life-saving measures.” said Francis Pigeon, Chair of the CREWS Initiative. “CREWS is not only delivering early warnings at scale, it is transforming how they are financed, governed, and sustained as a public good.”

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    Here are the 5 issues to watch at COP30 in Brazil
    Climate ActionNovember 12, 2025

    Here are the 5 issues to watch at COP30 in Brazil

    Excerpt from grist.org Global leaders will gather in northern Brazil next week to begin the 30th annual Conference of the Parties, or COP30, the United Nations climate summit that takes stock of just how much the world’s nations are doing to address climate change — or, depending on your capacity for optimism, how little. As U.S. President Donald Trump refutes the legitimacy of global warming — he recently called it the world’s “greatest con job” — his international counterparts are preparing to negotiate the terms of adapting their nations to its consequences. Meanwhile, poor and developing countries, which have contributed comparatively few emissions to the global carbon ledger, have yet to receive the climate-related aid long promised to them by rich and developed countries. This stymies their preparation for the effects of a crisis they did little to cause.

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    COP30: Pacific nations call for world to act as 1.5C threshold nears
    Climate ActionNovember 12, 2025

    COP30: Pacific nations call for world to act as 1.5C threshold nears

    Excerpt from asiapacificreport.nz By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor, and Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Pacific nations are at the world’s biggest climate talks making the familiar plea to keep global warming under 1.5C to stay alive, as scientists say the world will now certainly surpass the limit — at least temporarily. At the opening of the COP30 climate summit in Belém Brazil, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made the same call that Pacific nations have for years. “Let us be clear, the 1.5-degree limit is a red line for humanity. It must be kept within reach and scientists also tell us that this is still possible,” Guterres said.

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    Rising heat and falling yields plague an Amazon island near COP30 host
    Climate ActionNovember 12, 2025

    Rising heat and falling yields plague an Amazon island near COP30 host

    Excerpt from news.mongabay.com COMBU ISLAND, Brazil — Brazilian poet and songwriter Ruy Barata, born in 1920 in Santarém, in Brazil’s Amazonian state of Pará, once wrote ballads that captured the essence of ribeirinhos, the riverside people across the country. “This river is my street. Mine and yours, mururé,” he wrote, in lyrics that elegantly celebrate the traditions of communities living along riverbanks in the Amazon — a region where peoples, forests and rivers coexist in peace. Local inhabitants use the word mururé to designate several species of aquatic plants that can be easily seen in waterways throughout this part of Brazil.

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    From Aotearoa to the Amazon: Youth lead Pacific climate advocacy at COP30
    Climate ActionNovember 12, 2025

    From Aotearoa to the Amazon: Youth lead Pacific climate advocacy at COP30

    Photo: UN Climate Change/Kiara Worth via pmn.co.nz Excerpt from pmn.co.nz Four young advocates have arrived in Brazil for a major global climate conference, determined to ensure children and Pacific communities are not left behind in the fight against global warming. These rangatahi from Aotearoa New Zealand are calling for world leaders to turn promises into real, child-centred action. Marking 10 years since the Paris Agreement, the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) is being hosted in Belém, in the Brazilian Amazon, from 10 to 22 November. The Paris Agreement is a landmark 2015 accord which holds nations accountable to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

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    Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP30?
    Climate ActionNovember 12, 2025

    Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP30?

    Photo credit: IISD/ENB | Mike Muzurakis via carbonbrief.org Excerpt from carbonbrief.org For the first time in the history of COP climate summits, the US – the world’s largest historical emitter – has not sent a delegation to the talks. Back in January, newly inaugurated US president Donald Trump signed a letter to the UN to trigger the start of a US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement for a second time. Although this process is not yet complete, the White House confirmed earlier this month that no “high-level officials” would be attending COP30 in Belém, Brazil. The US joins Afghanistan, Myanmar and San Marino as the only countries not registering a delegation for the summit, according to Carbon Brief’s analysis of the provisional lists of delegates published by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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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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    A Turning Point for Methane: Leaders Move to Pull the Climate Emergency Brake at COP30
    Climate ActionNovember 12, 2025

    A Turning Point for Methane: Leaders Move to Pull the Climate Emergency Brake at COP30

    Excerpt from cop30.br Brazil, China and the United Kingdom, with support from the COP30 Presidency, co-hosted a methane summit, bringing together representatives from Barbados, France, Germany, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. The summit launched a set of landmark initiatives to accelerate global action on methane and other non-CO₂ greenhouse gases - the fastest, most effective way to slow the pace of climate change and deliver immediate benefits for air quality, food security, and public health. Together, these announcements signal a new era of cooperation, transparency and responsibility to cut methane and other non-CO2 gases through aligned regulation, fast mitigation, and fairer markets.

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    Oceania ‘voice’ Jacinda Ardern in open letter climate crisis plea in Brazil
    Climate ActionNovember 12, 2025

    Oceania ‘voice’ Jacinda Ardern in open letter climate crisis plea in Brazil

    Excerpt from asiapacificreport.nz In an open letter released at the Belém Climate Summit, special envoys for strategic regions have expressed their support for the COP30 presidency and for all leaders committed to advancing climate crisis action. Former New Zealand prime minister Dame Jacinda Ardern, the “voice” for Oceania, was among the seven climate envoys signing the letter. The document acknowledges the progress achieved through the Paris Agreement and the Dubai Consensus, while underscoring the need for further advances “in light of the Global Stocktake” and warning of the growing challenge posed by climate disinformation.

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