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COP30 Day 3 Puts People, Skills and Culture at the Center of Climate Action

November 13, 2025 No Comments

COP30 Day 3 underscored a clear message: the climate transition will rise or fall on society’s ability to build skills, protect cultural heritage, and strengthen trust in public information. With governments, multilateral institutions and civil society announcing new initiatives across jobs, education, Indigenous leadership and information integrity, the day marked

COP30 Day 2 Puts Cities, Heat Resilience and Water Security at the Center of Climate Delivery

November 12, 2025 No Comments

Belém – 12 November 2025, On Day 2 in Belém, COP30 shifted from global promises to local implementation. Ministers, mayors and regional leaders used the Amazon summit to show how climate action becomes real in streets, homes and utilities — through heat plans, housing policy, water infrastructure and waste systems

COP30 Day 1 Elevates Adaptation, Technology and Trillions in Climate Finance

November 11, 2025 No Comments

Belém – Under humid skies at the mouth of the Amazon, COP30 opened with an unusual asset for a UN climate summit: a negotiated agenda agreed on time. After a long night of talks, countries signed off on the programme for the next two weeks, elected Ambassador André Corrêa do

How the Baku to Belém Roadmap Could Rewire Global Climate Finance

November 11, 2025 No Comments

In the crowded corridors outside the COP30 negotiation rooms, the most consequential document on climate finance is not a treaty text but a roadmap. Drafted jointly by the Azerbaijani COP29 presidency and the Brazilian COP30 presidency, the Baku to Belém roadmap attempts to answer the question left hanging in Baku:

Tropical Forest Forever Facility Launches at COP30 With $5.5 Billion and 53 Nations to Transform Forest Finance

November 7, 2025 No Comments

A working lunch at the Belém Climate Summit turned into a decisive financing moment as leaders from more than thirty countries and the UN Secretary-General joined Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to launch the Tropical Forest Forever Facility at the COP30 Leaders’ Summit. The agreement sets in motion

The Power Players of COP30 and the Future They’re Negotiating

November 7, 2025 No Comments

Under the dense canopy of the Amazon, COP30 opens as a test of both global resolve and political realism. Delegates from nearly 200 nations have arrived in Belém, a city straining under the weight of 50,000 visitors, to determine whether the world can still coordinate its climate future — and

EU Sets 2035 Emissions Goal and Finance Push to Strengthen Global Climate Action at COP30

November 7, 2025 No Comments

Belém — As leaders converge on Belém for COP30, the European Union enters the summit with one of the most comprehensive climate packages ever presented — a plan to align global action with the Paris Agreement while deepening financial and industrial cooperation. “The global clean transition is ongoing and irreversible,”

Zohran Mamdani’s Victory and What It Means for Progressive Governance

November 7, 2025 No Comments

NEW YORK CITY — On election night the cafés of Astoria pulsed with a kind of civic electricity. Taxi drivers leaned out of windows, students spilled onto Steinway Street, and volunteers who had been knocking on doors for months hugged in disbelief. When the final count came in, Assemblymember Zohran

Google Backs Amazon Reforestation in Largest-Ever Carbon Removal Deal

November 7, 2025 No Comments

Belém — The forest canopy outside Belém is becoming a testing ground for corporate climate action. In its largest-ever carbon removal deal, Google has agreed to finance the restoration of degraded Amazon land through a partnership with Mombak, a Brazilian startup replanting native forests to lock carbon back into the

EU States Back 90% Emissions Cut by 2040, Add Flexibility for Carbon Credits and Removals

November 5, 2025 No Comments

Brussels — The European Union has agreed to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040, setting the stage for the bloc’s long-term climate policy ahead of COP30 in Belém, Brazil. But the compromise deal — brokered under Denmark’s EU Council presidency — adds new flexibilities that could allow