If the camel is a committee’s version of a horse, then the concluding notes of the 30 th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP30) at Belém, Brazil were bound to be ungainly, weak, and messy.

BELÉM, Brazil— The United Nations climate summit ended in Belém today with the establishment of a first-ever just transition mechanism for workers, Indigenous peoples and frontline communities ...

The United Nations’ COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, known as “the Amazon COP,” wrapped on November 22nd. Powerful petrostates and large polluting nations succeeded in blocking inclusion of a ...

The annual UN climate change conference held in Brazil last year, known as COP30, concluded without a clear roadmap to phase out fossil fuels. It also laid bare a question that has long haunted ...

Most of us see a heel of dry, forgotten bread as a candidate for ...

It appeared to be a grim déjà vu when the final gavel dropped in Belem, Brazil and the COP30 text once again avoided naming fossil fuels. But this apparent diplomatic failure obscured something more ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new analysis finds that tropical forests in 68 countries sit atop fossil fuel deposits that, if extracted, would emit 317 billion metric tons of ...

Global negotiations at the annual U.N. climate summit ended Saturday in Belém, Brazil, with a watered-down agreement that does not even mention fossil fuels, let alone offer a roadmap to phase out ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Fossil fuels generated a record low share of Japan's utility-scale electricity supplies over the first half of 2025, marking an important milestone in the ...

Brazil will collaborate with the Colombian and Dutch delegations to develop the road map outside the formal U.N. process, with the goal of bringing it back for discussion at COP31. Experts say the ...