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Have the COP climate summits actually achieved anything? Here are the numbers

It's been three decades of COP talks - and as most of the climate metrics get worse, questions about whether the summits are working have become impossible to ignore. This year, approximately 40,000 ...
Forbes

Why COP29 Fell Short And What’s Next For Global Climate Action

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Helping you to understand and thrive in our changing world With global temperatures nearing 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels this ...
The Conversation

After a disappointing COP29, here’s how to design global climate talks that might actually work

Many people long involved in global climate negotiations see the annual United Nations COP climate talks as fundamentally flawed. That includes me. On Sunday, the 29th round of talks finished in Baku, ...
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COP30 ended without a clear fossil fuel roadmap, but new initiatives emerged

The annual UN climate change conference held in Brazil last year, known as COP30, concluded without a clear roadmap to phase out fossil fuels. It also laid bare a question that has long haunted ...
Phys.org

Why climate summits fail, and three ways to save them

Nearly three decades after the first UN climate conference, emissions are still rising. The global system for tackling climate change is broken—it's slow, cumbersome and undemocratic. We urgently need ...
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A new era at COP31: Samed Ağırbaş to lead global coordination for climate justice and inclusive participation

At a time when the world is passing through a critical threshold in the fight against the climate crisis, Türkiye is ...
Newsweek

COP30 Climate Talks Flooded With Fossil Fuel Lobbyists: Report

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists are registered for the COP30 ...
Rolling Stone

Here’s How Big Oil Guides Global Climate Negotiations

This story was published in partnership with Drilled, a global multimedia reporting project focused on climate accountability, and was supported by the Pulitzer Center. The idea of global cooperation ...
E&E

A new COP process? Brazil floats ‘two-tier’ system.

After hosting the last climate summit, the South American country raised doubts about the 30-year-old paradigm based on consensus. Brazil, the host of last year’s COP30 climate summit, is pushing for ...
Phys.org

The UN climate talks have become too big for their own good

If you're still heading to this year's UN climate conference in Belém, Brazil, I hope you booked early. Hotels long sold out, and latecomers face extortionate rates—or the prospect of lodging in a ...
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‘Second decade of Paris Agreement will focus on implementation, not negotiation,’ say climate leaders

Leaders at London Climate Action Week call for faster clean energy transition, resilience planning and renewed climate ...