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More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading…

Artificial intelligence is often associated with ludicrous amounts of electricity, and therefore planet-heating emissions, expended to create nonsensical or misleading slop that is of meagre value…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureLet’s kick off with a reminder of why any of this matters.As political leaders debate…

What is the transition away from fossil fuels?Coal, oil and gas are at the heart of the climate crisis: burning them produces carbon dioxide, and that…

Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva, has urged all countries to have the courage to address the need for a fossil fuel phaseout, calling the drawing up…

Published On 16 Nov 202516 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareTens of thousands of people have thronged the streets of an Amazonian city hosting…

More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém, significantly outnumbering every single country’s delegation apart from the…

Countries must recognise the demarcation of Indigenous lands as a key component of tackling the climate crisis, and civil society must help in the defence of…

The weather in Belém, wrote the Guardian’s environment editor, offers a convenient metaphor for the UN climate talks being held in the Brazilian city. Sunny mornings…

Protesters blockaded the main entrance to the Cop30 climate conference for several hours early on Friday morning, demanding to speak to Brazil’s president about the plight…