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COP30 keeps climate cooperation alive but hanging by a thread
The 194 countries still taking part in UN climate negotiations reaffirmed the Paris Agreement following the US withdrawal, even if they agreed on little else
The delegates at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the U.N. annual climate conference, have reached a deal on a final agreement.
Many gave the deal lukewarm praise as the best that could be achieved in trying times, while others complained about the package or the process that led to its approval.
Climate events are pushing nature to the forefront as nature loss and climate change fuel each other, creating economic risks companies and investors can’t ignore.
Countries around the world have agreed to put more money toward fighting climate change as this year’s COP30 climate summit concludes in Brazil. A formal decision released over the weekend said
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Brazil’s forest fund faces a slow takeoff at COP30 despite initial support
Operational rifts and budget constraints choked ambitious funding from rich nations for TFFF at Belém’s summit.
At United Nations climate talks billed widely as having a special focus on Indigenous people, those people themselves have mixed feelings about whether the highlight reel matches reality.
Global climate talks in Brazil wrapped up with a deal to increase funding for countries hit by warming but no plan to phase out fossil fuels.
Several nations held firm Friday in blocking proposals in the final stages of this year's U.N. climate talks because they failed to explicitly cite the burning of fuels such as oil, gas and coal as causes of global warming,
In her talk, Pastor Neddy Astudillo used examples from Florida to describe how environmental racism, human rights and democracy are connected.