Trump Disinvites South Africa from 2026 G20 Summit in Miami
Johannesburg, November 2025 — The G20’s first Leaders Summit on African soil ended with a diplomatic rupture that few in Johannesburg had anticipated. Days after members adopted a declaration on multilateral cooperation, President Donald Trump announced that South Africa, the outgoing G20 president, will not be invited to next year’s summit in Miami, escalating a […]
Humanitarian Crisis in Southeast Asia Deepens as Floods Hit Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand
A week of water that turned into a regional emergency In southern Thailand, drone footage over Hat Yai shows streets carpeted with mud, cars piled into corners and rows of shopfronts gutted by water that only days ago reached first-floor windows. Behind those images is a stark human cost: at least 145 people have been […]
ISA Director General Ashish Khanna Outlines Post-COP30 Strategy to Power the Global South with Solar
SDG News’ Heeta Lakhani interviews International Solar Alliance Director General Ashish Khanna on new solar platforms, global procurement for SIDS, risk guarantees for mini-grids, and the push to move the world from pilots to action. The International Solar Alliance (ISA) was born at a COP ten years ago in Paris, out of a sense that […]
What to Know About the COP30 Climate Deal and Its Global Implications
The last night of COP30 broke into dawn as exhausted delegates stepped out of Belém’s humid Blue Zone, clutching the eight-page Global Mutirão decision that will define climate diplomacy for the next year. Outside, protesters had drifted home. Inside, negotiators from nearly 200 countries had inched toward agreement without the presence of the United States […]
Exclusive to Insiders: COP30 Momentum Shifts to Panama as CRIC23 Set to Tackle Global Land Degradation
Panama City — December 2025 Heat rises over Panama City as the country prepares to welcome delegates from 196 nations and the European Union for the twenty third session of the Review Committee on the Implementation of the Convention. When CRIC23 opens on 1 December, Panama will step onto the global stage at a pivotal […]
Live at COP30: Fiji’s Chief Negotiator Sivendra Michael Warns Fossil Fuel Language Has Fallen Out of the MutiRão Text
SDG News’ Heeta Lakhani interviews Permanent Secretary Sivendra Michael, Fiji’s chief negotiator, on the MutiRão package, missing fossil fuel language, and why SIDS are pushing to triple adaptation finance and protect 1.5°C as a red line. Belém — Away from the closed-door rooms where the COP30 presidency is working through competing red lines, Fiji’s Permanent […]
COP30 Momentum Shifts to Panama as UN’s CRIC23 Set to Tackle Global Land Degradation
Panama City — December 2025 Heat rises over Panama City as the country prepares to welcome delegates from 196 nations and the European Union for the twenty third session of the Review Committee on the Implementation of the Convention. When CRIC23 opens on 1 December, Panama will step onto the global stage at a pivotal […]
U.S. Launches Accelerated Environmental Rollbacks as COP30 Negotiators Push for Climate Progress
Under the shadow of COP30 negotiations in Belém, the United States has taken some of its most sweeping steps in decades to dismantle environmental protections. While nearly 200 governments work to shore up global climate action, the U.S. — notably absent from this year’s summit — has moved to weaken three core pillars of its […]
Microsoft’s CSO Melanie Nakagawa Shares Her Top Three Takeaways from COP30
by Melanie Nakagawa, Chief Sustainability Officer at Microsoft I have attended many COPs over the course of my career — 13 to be exact! I’ve experienced them from three different vantage points: first as part of the NGO community, then as part of a government delegation, and now as part of the business community. While […]
COP30 Outcomes Set New Finance Commitments but Leave Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Unresolved
Belém — November 2025 Rain hung over Belém’s waterfront as negotiators pushed through the final hours of COP30, closing two intense weeks with a package of decisions that will influence climate policy, cross-border trade and corporate strategy for the next decade. The outcomes delivered sweeping commitments on finance, adaptation and just transition, yet stopped short […]
