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NEW – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém

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NEW – Guest post: Why carbon emissions from fires are significantly higher than thought | Prof Guido van der Werf

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December 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Daily Briefing: Floods 'devastate’ SE Asia | Canada’s climate ‘U-turn’ | Australia coal protest

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December 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Recommended watch: @newscientist.com interviewed criminal psychologist Julia Shaw about the psychology behind environmental crimes.
Inside the Mind of a Planet Killer
Criminal psychologist Julia Shaw applies the same profiling techniques used in other criminal cases to understand the psychology behind environmental crimes such as the ivory trade, the VW Dieselgate…
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November 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Recommended listen: The BBC’s Climate Question podcast looked at the main outcomes from COP30 and discussed the “future of climate action” with a team of panelists.
The Climate Question - How can the world speed up climate action? - BBC Sounds
We're still behind on our global warming targets after the big summit in Brazil.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Recommended read: ABC news spoke to three Iranian women about the impacts of Tehran’s water crisis amid the “worst drought in 60 years”.
Tehran close to running dry due to 'water bankruptcy'
As Iran suffers through a drought and the president warns the capital could be evacuated, millions are worried about what the future will hold.
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November 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
DeBriefed: COP30’s ‘frustrating’ end; Asia floods; UK ‘emergency’ climate event

✍️ @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org

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November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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SCOOP: Carbon Brief has exclusively obtained a list of 84 countries "opposed" to adding a fossil-fuel roadmap to COP30 deal – but our analysis found a series of contradictions & likely errors

For eg 14 on list are also roadmap "supporters"

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November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Stellar reporting by @carbonbrief.org on what really happened with that 'roadmap' away from fossil fuels at COP30:
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Revealed: Leak casts doubt on COP30’s ‘informal list’ of fossil-fuel roadmap opponents - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief has obtained a leaked copy of the “informal list” of countries that were characterised as “blocking” the fossil-fuel roadmap’sat COP30.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
NEW – Revealed: Leak casts doubt on COP30’s ‘informal list’ of fossil-fuel roadmap opponents | @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org

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Revealed: Leak casts doubt on COP30’s ‘informal list’ of fossil-fuel roadmap opponents - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief has obtained a leaked copy of the “informal list” of countries that were characterised as “blocking” the fossil-fuel roadmap’sat COP30.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Daily Briefing: Canada ‘rolls back’ climate rules | Australia bill ‘to be law’ | Brazil revives ‘devastation bill’

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November 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
China Briefing | COP30 wraps; Climate and critical minerals at G20; Coal use up

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November 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Daily Briefing: UK budget | Australia’s fossil-fuel emissions fall | Indonesia floods

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November 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Daily Briefing: North Sea drilling curbs ‘relaxed’ | Deadly floods in south-east Asia | China coal permits at ‘four-year low’

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November 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
NEW – Webinar: Carbon Brief’s third ‘ask us anything’ at COP30

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November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Daily Briefing: Australia to push fossil transition | Thailand floods | China’s ‘green cooperation’ call

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November 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Storm naming is a public safety tool that makes severe weather easier to remember, talk about and follow.

Met Office Head of Warnings and Guidance Holly Clements spoke to @carbonbrief.org all about it ⬇️
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨

It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…

–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more

Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast

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November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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COP30 was the 11th longest on record
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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A fantastic effort from the @carbonbrief.org team pulling this together.
A great resource summarising major outcomes and process at COP30. A must read 👇👇👇

And just a day after the gavel came down. Impressive. I bet next year, they'll beat the COP closing plenary :)
NEW – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém

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#COP30
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Truly collective effort from my @carbonbrief.org colleagues to sum up COP30.

What was achieved: voluntary initiative to accelarate implementation of NDCs, reduced set of adaptation indicators, a mechanism for just transition

What slipped away: fossil fuel and defirestation roadmaps

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NEW – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém

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#COP30
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Daily Briefing: COP30’s ‘fragile’ deal | G20’s ‘climate snub’ to Trump | Vietnam floods

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November 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM