Daily Briefing: COP30 letter | South Korea to quit coal | Saudi solar ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/Bccf0ch ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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NEW – COP30: Carbon Brief’s second ‘ask us anything’ webinar | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/9J2LHC2

Daily Briefing: Ministers arrive at COP30 | Saudi ‘blocking tactics’ | March in Belém ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/uZb64uB ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

On Monday, Carbon Brief will host the second of three live “Ask Us Anything’ COP30 webinars 🎙️ If you have secured your COP30 Insider Pass, you’ll be able to ask your questions directly to our journalists on the ground. Want access? Secure your pass now ⬇️

Recommended listen: @outrageoptimism.bsky.social is running a “special edition” podcast series in partnership with the COP30 presidency, bringing “exclusive, behind-the-scenes access” to the conference.

Recommended watch: YouTuber @simonoxfphys.com has published a video of himself interviewing prime minister Keir Starmer about the UK’s actions on climate and nature, at COP30 and domestically.

Recommended read: @tbij.bsky.social told the story of Kim Rebholz – an environmentalist who was threatened for his work curbing illegal logging in Democratic Republic of Congo’s mangrove parks.

Did you know that Carbon Brief has a daily newsletter dedicated to the UN climate negotiations in Brazil? Join our COP30 Insider Pass holders to get access to this and more from inside the negotiations ➡️ buff.ly/H0meF1U

COP30 DeBriefed | Finance and 1.5C loom large at talks; China’s emissions dip; Negotiations explained Read here ➡️ buff.ly/kW8TfkH Subscribe to DeBriefed ➡️ subscribe.carbonbrief.org

COP30 STATUS UPDATE: We're tracking 117 substantive agenda items in Belém – and there's clear progress 7 – agreed 27 – draft text 12 – informal text 57 – not agreed/ no text 14 – postponed Check our text tracker for more www.carbonbrief.org/...

An "informal note" on "global goal on adaptation" at COP30 talks includes a section on a new finance goal. It calls for developed countries to increase adaptation finance by "at least" 3x between 2025 and 2030 This is something some developing countries - notably LDCs - have said is a priority.

Feeling COP FOMO? Our @carbonbrief.org COP30 Special breaks down what China has been saying and doing in Belem this week Featuring: 👊 Fights over climate finance and NDC ambition 📉 Pressure on a fossil fuel phaseout 🗺️ South-south cooperation galore Find out more ⬇️

Daily Briefing: COP30 ‘fossil-fuel fight’ | EU loosens green rules | Global oil ‘glut’ ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/kGWj7kE ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

NEW – Analysis: Seven charts showing how the $100bn climate-finance goal was met | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @c-aguilargarcia.bsky.social @porcelinad.bsky.social @theguardian.com Read here: buff.ly/UZ9dxXb

China Briefing | COP30 special ✍️ @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org @wanyuansong.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/h9OSFvp Sign up to China Briefing ➡️ buff.ly/aLTmtZN

NEW – Met Office: Ten years of naming UK storms to warn the public | Holly Clements @metoffice.gov.uk Read here ⬇️

With 56,118 delegates registered, COP30 is expected to be the 2nd largest in history, says a @carbonbrief.org analysis. There’s a case for changing the format and the cadence of COPs. (Twice a year?) And this year there's a record-number of “virtual delegates.” www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-whi...

Daily Briefing: GHG emissions ‘hit record’ in 2025 | Climate misinformation ‘to be tackled’ | SMR nuclear for Wales ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/zjvc1S1 ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

For more details, see my @carbonbrief.org article with Global Carbon Budget lead @pfriedling.bsky.social: www.carbonbrief.org/... And the new Global Carbon Budget paper: essd.copernicus.org/...

NEW – Analysis: Fossil-fuel CO2 emissions to set new record in 2025, as land sink ‘recovers’ | @hausfath.bsky.social @pfriedling.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/F4rY1GP

Wherever you live on the planet, 🇨🇳China’s efforts to tackle climate change affect us all. Carbon Brief’s award-winning China Briefing newsletter rounds up all the need-to-know information about climate and energy in China from the past 14 days. Sign up for free 🔽 subscribe.carbonbrief.org

NEW ANALYSIS: For the first time in history, the US has not sent any official delegates to the annual UN climate talks #COP30 Full details from my colleagues, below, inc that with 56,118 delegates registered, COP30 is provisionally 2nd-largest www.carbonbrief.org/...

Daily Briefing: Renewables ‘outpace’ fossil fuels | Ethiopia ‘to host’ COP31 | US ‘abdicating’ responsibility ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/DZFwQxA ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

NEW – IEA: Fossil-fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless ‘stated policies’ are abandoned | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org and Ho Woo Nam Read here ⬇️

As COP30 gets underway, Carbon Brief ran its first of three Q&A webinars yesterday, discussing China's role at the summit, climate finance, the absence of the US and more!

This is a really exciting update by @carbonbrief.org and @reutersinstitute.bsky.social You can now search the over 1.000 experts by: 🌏Region/country 🔬Expertise ♀Gender 🗣Language That means, if you are looking for a Pakistani health expert that speaks Urdu, we got you. 🔗bit.ly/GSClimateDatabase

The Global South Climate Database has just been revamped by @carbonbrief.org and @reutersinstitute.bsky.social We launched it back in 2022 to help journalists connect with Global South experts. Now you can search by: 🌏 Region and country 🔬 Expertise 🙋🏾‍♀️ Gender 🗣️ Language 🔗 buff.ly/jqEUdRx

I'm part of a brilliant team writing the daily Belém Briefing, with all you need to know, including key events and negotiations you shouldn't miss (with livestream links). All bundled up with @carbonbrief.org's COP Insider Pass. subscribe.carbonbrief.org/cop30-inside...

“Heat pumps are superior in efficiency to condensing boilers, even if the heat pumps are powered by electricity from a power station burning natural gas.” Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay. More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇 interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...

Here's our annual analysis of who is going to COP: Top story: no US delegation for the first time in COP history Also: ~56,000 people registered, so no big drop-off despite accommodation issues in Belém (Caveat: these are provisional figures) Also also: most "virtual" delegates ever #COP30

NEW – Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP30? | @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/I5pUBHu

Are you a journalist covering COP30 looking for new and diverse sources? Check out the Global South Climate Database. This publicly available, searchable database features 1,000+ climate scientists and experts from the global south. 🌍🔗 bit.ly/GSClimateDatabase

🇨🇳 📰 NEW | Analysis: #China’s #CO2 #emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-18-months/ @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social w/ @carbonbrief.org

I'm in Belém for week 1 of COP30, covering China's role at the negotiations. If you're around and have time for a coffee, let me know!

It's that time of year again – I'm in Belém for COP30 🐸🌴🥵 As usual I'm interested in all things climate finance. I will also be following the "action agenda", as well as loss and damage discussions. The Carbon Brief team has an office in the media centre. Come and say hello if you're about!

Bom dia! I’m in Belém for the next two weeks for #COP30 representing @carbonbrief.org Please come and say hello, keen to hear your thoughts on negotiations or about your research/specialty 🇧🇷🦜

NEW – Webinar: Carbon Brief’s first ‘ask us anything’ at COP30 | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org Watch the recording ⬇️

Daily Briefing: COP30 opening ‘plea’ | China’s CO2 ‘flat or falling’ | Fung-wong nears Taiwan ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/ydG2Zma ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

NEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/ONGzk3a

Carbon Brief is introducing the COP30 Insider Pass for those who need more than headlines from Belem, Brazil. What the pass gives you access to: 📲 An invite-only WhatsApp group 📩 A daily email newsletter 🗣️ ​​3x exclusive 'Ask Us Anything' webinars Sign up ⬇️

Daily Briefing: COP30 begins | Disasters ‘displaced 250 million’ | Philippines hit again ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/Uh1SKad ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

Recommended watch: A video by the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London explored the pivotal moments leading to the historic establishment of a loss and damage fund.

Recommended read: Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wrote in the Guardian ahead of COP30 about the need to act “with the urgency the climate crisis demands”.

Recommended watch: A Netflix documentary looked at how a “crucial opportunity” to take climate action was “deliberately undermined” during the George HW Bush administration.

What’s happened this week in climate change? 🌎 DeBriefed | Belém COP begins; UN warns of 1.5C breach; changing roles of climate scientists ✍️ Written Roz Pidcock 💻 Edited @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/hJbOExj

UNEP's latest annual “emissions gap” report is out - countries' climate plans "barely move the needle" on future warming @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/unep-new-cou...

NEW – Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the COP30 climate summit | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/aPAxSv5

NEW – Ongoing failure to agree AR7 timeline is ‘unprecedented’ in IPCC history | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/rSMdzNf

Negotiators at #COP30 next week could finally agree how to track progress on the Global Goal on Adaptation, a major milestone for climate resilience. E3G’s Ana Mulio Alvarez shares insights in @carbonbrief.org's latest Q&A 👇 www.carbonbrief.org/qa-cop30-cou...