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Brazil's Vice President and Minister of Industry and Trade Geraldo Alckmin (L) and Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva addressed the press in Belem on Monday

Draft reveals gulf between nations at summit

Lula to return to COP30 as nations under pressure to land deal

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (R) and Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz hold a bilateral meeting at COP30

German Environment Minister strikes a different tone

Lula says Germany's Merz should have 'gone dancing', after Belem criticism

German Minister for Digitalisation Karsten Wildberger (C) was on hand to break ground on the project designed to bolster European AI ambitions

Catching up, at what cost?

Germany hopes new data centre can help bring 'digital sovereignty'

Trade-restrictive measures loom large

COP-and-trade? Tariffs, carbon tax weigh on climate talks

Brazil's Vice President and Minister of Industry and Trade Geraldo Alckmin (L) and Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva addressed the press in Belem on Monday

Following late night negotiations

First draft of climate pact lands at COP30 in Brazil

Rhinos are protected under a global wildlife protection convention, and international trade in their horns is prohibited

Worth more than $800,000

Singapore seizes record rhino horn haul

An adult female Masai giraffe rears on its hind legs as it resists efforts by Kenyan rangers to guide it into a transportation crate

'Stranded, stressed' giraffes in Kenya relocated as habitats encroached

COP30 official ends on Friday but UN climate talks traditionally spill into overtime

Climate talks run into night as COP30 hosts seek breakthrough

Australian Climate Minister Chris Bowen said his country is 'in it to win it' when it comes to competition to host next year's UN climate summit

Last-ditch blitz

'In it to win it': Australia doubles down on climate hosting bid

A new study aims to measure how much is too much when marine animals consume plastic

New research measures how much plastic is lethal for marine life

International Science and Invention Fair

Two young researchers from Luxembourg awarded international environmental prize

Asia's fourth-largest economy currently operates the world's seventh-largest coal fleet and is the fourth-largest coal importer, according to the PPCA

South Korea pledges to phase out coal plants at COP30

The death toll from three landslides that hit Indonesia's Java island since last week has risen to 18, with more than 30 people missing, authorities said

30 people missing

Death toll from Indonesia landslides rises to 18

CCS equipment captures CO2 at its source -- such as power plants or industrial facilities -- before it is stored in deep underground rock formations

ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP

Carbon capture promoters turn up in numbers at COP30: NGO

Turkey wants to host next year's UN climate change talks

Turkey seeks to host next COP as co-presidency plans falter

Under a baking sun, Indigenous people mixed with activists marched in a festive atmosphere in Belem

The 'Great People's March'

Massive march in Brazil marks first big UN climate protest in years

International Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez says the strongarm negotiation tactics at the October 2025 meeting was not 'typical' of the shipping regulator

Aim to decarbonize sector by around 2050

UN regulator says shipping still wants to decarbonize -- despite US threats

Demand meeting with Lula da Silva

Indigenous protesters disrupt UN climate summit again

US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat from Rhode Island, speaks during an interview on Capitol Hill on July 8, 2025 in Washington, DC

Trump's pro-fossil-fuel policies do 'not represent the American people'

At COP30, senator warns US 'deliberately losing' clean tech race with China

Demonstrators demanded forest protection and global climate responsibility during COP30 in Belem, Brazil, a UN climate conference that one nonprofit group warned featured more than 1,000 fossil fuel lobbyists and energy industry leaders

1,602 delegates linked to oil industry

Fossil fuel lobbyists out in force at Amazon climate talks: NGOs

TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne is one of the few oil executives at COP30

Head of TotalEnergies

A rare oil CEO shows up at COP30, spars with activists

The Archeologia Arborea foundation saves fruit varieties to restore biodiversity and build resilience against climate change

Preserving agricultural heritage

Italian fruit detective racing to save forgotten varieties

Couples had to spend four days in a cabin and not make noise over 45 decibels

Sweden sees silent forests as sanctuaries from a noisy world

An estimated 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered every year

Trashing the planet

Tobacco conference to weigh up stubbing out cigarette butts

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket lifts off for its second mission, the NG-2, from Space Launch Complex 36 at the Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida

Historic moment

Blue Origin launches NASA Mars mission and nails booster landing

Tech firms are pouring massive sums into physical AI, and Morgan Stanley predicts the world could have more than a billion humanoid robots by 2050

Soon to be commonplace?

Rise of the robots: the promise of physical AI

Security personnel clash with indigenous people and students as they storm the venue during the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil, on November 11, 2025

Brazil rebuts UN complaint about COP30 security, but boosts presence

Brazil is hosting the COP30 climate summit in Belem, a city in the country's north best known as a gateway to the Amazon.

Showdown with oil powers

Fight over fossil fuels drawdown looms at UN climate summit

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