Governments have, once again, failed to agree on a timeline for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seventh assessment cycle (AR7) ...

Carbon Brief’s real-time text tracker offers a helping hand by decoding agenda and keeping a searchable record of every document at COP30 ...

The UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres’s speech at the “opening session” of the COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil, which formally begins next week ...

COP30 host Brazil has published the “Baku to Belém roadmap”, an 81-page plan for how to mobilise $1.3tn a year in climate finance for developing nations ...

Carbon Brief details what the Baku to Belém roadmap is, why it was launched and what the key points within it are.

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In order to track parties’ positions on negotiating points at COP30, Carbon Brief has analysed nearly 100 submissions to the UN and captured them in a table ...

Bloomberg covers a new report from Bloomberg Economics researchers which finds that “if the world collectively retreated from green policies, the global economy would shrink”. Carbon unit prices in ...

The latest round of country climate plans ‘barely move the needle’ on future warming, the head of the United Nations Environment Programme has warned ...

Carbon Brief explores what the GGA is, why progress on adaptation has been challenging and what a successful outcome would look like in Belém.

Adam Morton, Guardian Australia’s climate and environment editor, asks why Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese wants to host next year’s global climate summit in Adelaide when he is not ...

DEFORESTATION DOWN: On the eve of hosting COP30, Brazil’s government announced an 11% drop in annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, the fourth consecutive annual fall and lowest deforestation ...