COP30: Five key takeaways from a deeply divisive climate summit

Protests, tears and a baby: five key images that tell the story of Cop30

Emotions ran high at the UN climate summit in Brazil, which was hit by its first major protest in four yearsIt was a tense moment. A group of about 50 people from the Munduruku, an Indigenous people in the Amazon basin, had blocked the entrance to the Cop30 venue in protest, causing long lines of delegates to snake down access roads, simmering in the morning heat.The Munduruku, unhappy about the ruination of their forest and rivers by industry a…

Africa: SA Welcomes Outcomes of COP30

[SAnews.gov.za] The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Willie Aucamp, has welcomed the outcomes of the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

COP30's final document leaves fossil fuels unmentioned

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) concluded in Belém, Brazil, with the approval of a final document that has drawn both consensus and sharp criticism for its lack of ambition, particularly its silence on the future of fossil fuels.

Bonn to Belém: Three Decades of Promises, Half-Delivered Justice, and Rights-Based Governance Is Now Inevitable

By M. Zakir Hossain KhanDHAKA, Bangladesh, Nov 25 2025 (IPS) COP30 in Belém is not just another annual climate meeting, it is the 32-year report card of the world governance architecture that was conceived at the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. And that is what report card says: delivery has been sporadic, cosmetic and perilously disconnected with the physics of climatic breakdown. M. Zakir Hossain KhanThe Amazon, which was once regarded in Rio as an …

ANALYSIS | COP30 failed to land a deal on the fossil fuel transition. Countries are moving forward anyway

Countries failed to reach a deal on fossil fuels at the recent UN climate summit in Brazil. But the fact that it was put on the agenda shows global momentum is continuing to build.

Why the new UN deal shows how far the world has drifted from Paris climate goals

Nearly 200 countries agreed to step up efforts to adapt to global warming and warned about the risks of inaction, but rejected proposals to directly address...