China has announced a new emissions target of 7-10% cuts by 2035 from "peak levels". While it was deemed "insufficient" compared to the 30% cuts needed to align with 1.5C, it's much better than its previous targets (which it met 6 years early) www.climatechangenews.com/2025/09/24/c...

The US president’s outspoken speech was littered with a string of misleading or false statements – many about efforts to fight climate change. @climatechangenews.com team is here with a fact check: www.climatechangenews.com/2025/09/24/f...

Brazil has pledged $1bn to the TFFF - a proposed new fund to protect the world’s rainforests. It’s been called “innovative”, “promising” and “the right answer” to close the forest finance gap. But how does it work? Here’s our breakdown of the TFFF: www.climatechangenews.com/2025/09/23/e...

As countries were tasked with negotiating a treaty to end plastic pollution, the divide between 100 ambitious countries and oil- and gas- producing nations was too wide to bridge, writes Swiss lead negotiator Felix Wertli. Read below his full acount of why the talks failed:

What is going on with COP30? Brazil insists in holding the UN climate talks in the Amazon city of Belém. More than 120 countries have not yet booked hotels due to sky-high prices. @mcivillini.bsky.social and @meganrowling.bsky.social bring the full story: www.climatechangenews.com/2025/08/22/c...

Brazil’s environment minister told @mcivillini.bsky.social she has advocated for a roadmap to end fossil fuels to be agreed at COP30: “The worst possible thing would be for us to not plan for this transition.”

While it is easy to feel despair over Brazil’s auction of oil and gas blocks in the Amazon (19 blocks sold), it’s encouraging to see so many different sectors willing to put up a fight (prosecutors, activists, unions). It will be very hard for any drilling to happen soon

New investigation out: Has aviation's green dream hit turbulence? Our team mapped the supply chain of sustainable aviation fuel coming into Europe. We found an industry plagued by fraud risks, an opaque supply and a limited capacity for traceability.

Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) made used cooking oil is key for world's green aviation plans. A team of journalists from three continents reveals high fraud risks to it: Virgin palm oil – not permitted under EU law because of its links to rainforest loss – is being passed off as UCO. t.ly/Zd9-W

-Colombia is drumming up support for a legally binding minerals agreement -An alliance of NGOs wants to get the issue onto the agenda of this year’s COP30 climate talks -experts are calling for a new materials data hub

First signs from Brazil's COP30 presidency at Climate Week in Panama: they want an "early harvest" on just transition talks and might take on the fossil fuel fight early on. www.climatechangenews.com/2025/05/23/b...

New from our Clean Energy Frontier series: Chinese solar companies turned Thailand into a solar module assembly hub. Now thousands of Thai workers are caught in a trade war between Washington and Beijing

Exclusive: The U.S. is seeking to weaken a global deal aimed at helping developing countries struggling with the impacts of climate change and other issues, an internal UN document showed👇 Story with Simon Jessop on the UN development finance negotiations #FfD4 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

100 days of Trump: we compiled a few examples of how the US has made climate action more difficult at the global stage www.climatechangenews.com/2025/04/29/t...

It's difficult to overstate how important this is, especially in the context of the US going rogue

“When this company started extracting gas in our territory and I started negotiating for them to stop, they offered me apartments, cars, houses. But my people would remain suffering, so I refused,” said indigenous leader Jonas Mura. “That’s why they wanted to kill me.”

1/3 #Trump has such a passion for tariffs he even imposed them on Antarctic islands – home only to #penguins 🐧, who presumably pose a grave threat to American industry. ✍️ In this oped for @climatechangenews.com I detail why other than penguins, the #energytransition is safe from Trump’s #tariffs.

While it contains many good news, one of the most unsettling facts in the new @iea.org report is that climate change is itself making the energy transition more difficult. If weather in 2024 would’ve been slightly less extreme, emissions rise would’ve been cut in half

NEW: Carbon credit auditors suspended for failures in sham rice-farming offsets Verra has taken unprecedented action against four certification bodies that failed to spot integrity issues with the projects. But worthless credits still need to be compensated.

In a break from routine at the UN’s annual climate conference, Brazilian organizers for COP30 are scheduling key world leaders’ speeches — normally headline events — for the days prior to the conference’s official kick-off. By @sebastianrodvar.bsky.social for @climatechangenews.com…

🌎 Ayer fue el 1er webinario en español de @coveringclimatenow.org Junto a Ana Bueno, @sebastianrodvar.bsky.social y Elena González conversamos sobre cómo cubrir el cambio climático desde América Latina y para audiencias hispanohablantes Pueden ver la charla grabada aquí: youtu.be/jKvkgFBsmog?...

Argentina is considering leaving the Paris Agreement, following the US exit in January. President Milei, a climate skeptic, says he doesn’t “adhere to the environmentalist agenda”—but analysts warn withdrawal could harm trade and climate finance.

Despite corporate promises to control methane emissions, Mexico’s state oil company Pemex has increased gas flaring and venting in the past decade, which could threaten the country’s net zero by 2050 goal and impact local communities New @climatehome.bsky.social investigation in Mexico

Negotiators at biodiversity COP16.2 agreed on a 5-year finance roadmap, at a time when consensus seemed difficult. Still, as one Bolivian delegate said, "biodiversity cannot wait for a bureaucratic process that lasts forever". Check out @climatehome.bsky.social wrap up of the meeting in Rome

At COP16 plenary, the Argentinian delegate asks to eliminate references to the SDGs from the finance text, in line with Milei's attack on the 2030 goals. COP presidency reminds them most of the text was already agreed after discussions in Cali. Asks to focus on finance for "best use of our time"

Biodiversity COP16.2 opened with the same divisions seen in Cali. Countries are fighting over where to house the biodiversity fund. BRICS and Africa want it out of the GEF. EU wants to keep it in the GEF. Parties were clear that other decisions would depend on a positive deal on finance

UN biodiversity reports that just 13 ministers will attend the COP16 resumed session in Rome kicking off tomorrow. Some observers worry that discussions on biodiversity finance might need ministerial-level negotiations to unravel.

After three UN climate summits being hosted by major fossil fuel producers, hopes were that Brazil would host a COP without the shadow of oil and gas. While COP30 might still leave room for a discussion on the fossil fuels transition, its host country is sending mixed signals.

Japan received some 3,000 comments on its draft NDC, almost all of which called for an increase in the ambition of its weak target of a 60% reduction by 2035. No changes were made. Environment minister Keiichiro Asao said the arguments made had already been considered when formulating the policy.

Zambia is one of the world’s top exporters of raw copper, yet nearly two-thirds of its population lives in extreme poverty. Can large-scale foreign mining investments change that?

Not exactly ideal that COP16 president Susana Muhamad resigned a couple of weeks before UN nature talks on finance, all while the US cuts finance for nature www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/10/c...

Musk/Trump’s anti-diversity crusade has even led to resources for reporting sexual harassment being taken down at NOAA. Workers hang on despite “demoralizing” conditions cuz of how important the work is — but are worried ppl may lose access to free weather forecasts www.theverge.com/news/607224/...

The Trump administration’s decision to freeze USAID funding has put nearly $500 million a year in global climate aid at risk. Critical projects that support clean energy, conservation, and climate resilience in developing countries now face an uncertain future.

Arctic geoengineering experiment shuts down over environmental risks, reports @climatehome.bsky.social www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/03/u...

The Arctic Ice Project shut down geoengineering experiments citing environmental concerns and “potential risks to the Arctic food chain”. Some countries want to regulate geoengineering as more rogue initiatives arise. www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/03/u...

Climate change is making Los Angeles more flammable. A new study from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group has found that climate change has made the dry conditions fueling LA’s fires 35% more likely. As global temperatures continue to rise, these conditions will become even more frequent.

New biodiversity plans (NBSAPs) have landed since COP16 lost quorum in Cali, among them the Philippines: ort.cbd.int/es/nbsaps/my... 46 countries have NBSAPs. Most of Africa has national targets but needs finance to draft full NBSAPs. Key countries DRC and Brazil still have none

Shell sold “carbon neutral” LNG using in part rice offsets from China. But farmers and local authorities in the project areas say no activities took place. By @mcivillini.bsky.social with @dialogueearth.bsky.social www.climatechangenews.com/2024/12/19/s...

"We are the sacrificed." In the copper-mining region of Antofagasta in Chile, the world's top copper producer, doctors are blaming mining pollution for soaring numbers of children being diagnosed with autism. cleanenergyfrontier.climatechangenews.com/doctors-rais...

El cobre es crítico para la electrificación y la transición energética. En Chile, el mayor productor del mundo, su minería está ligada a cada vez más casos de cancer y autismo en zonas de sacrificio.

“We are the sacrificed.” As demand for copper for the energy transition soars, doctors warn of an environmental and health crisis in Chile’s copper mining region, polluted with toxic mining dust. cleanenergyfrontier.climatechangenews.com/doctors-rais...

The US, Saudi Arabia and others have pushed back against a global bid to clarify states’ legal obligations to tackle climate change The landmark legal hearing in The Hague will see 98 states giving oral submissions to the court

South Korean citizens helped lawmakers scale the National Assembly walls so they could bypass military barricades and vote against martial law.

Saudi Arabia statement at ICJ after just blocking talks in Baku and Busan: “The treaty regime reflects the good-faith efforts of all participating states to reach pragmatic and effective agreement on what are immensely complicated policy matters for every state”

#COP29 has just ended but @mcivillini.bsky.social is already in Busan covering UN talks on a new plastics treaty, where Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran have already picked up a fight to prevent tackling production of plastics (mostly from fossil fuels) www.climatechangenews.com/2024/11/25/u...

After fiery talks, a new post-2025 goal was adopted but some developing nations dismissed it as too small to meet their needs amid growing climate stress www.climatechangenews.com/2024/11/23/f...

With the UAE dialogue decision now pushed to next year, the "UAE consensus" on the energy transition, including transitioning away from fossil fuels, 3xRE and 2xEE is on life support. #COP29

It’s a wrap from #COP29, where a $300bn new climate finance goal was (barely) adopted despite some opposition. But a climate mitigation package meant to inform new climate plans could not reach agreement and was pushed to next year www.climatechangenews.com/2024/11/23/f...

A final GST draft dated from early morning Sunday contains a mention to "paragraph 28" referencing fossil fuel transition in GST, but also adds a line recognising "transitional fuels" — which wasn't featured in previous versions. Fails to mention fossil fuels explicitly unfccc.int/sites/defaul...