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· Nov 22
A debate is raging as to whether Cop30 was a success, a failure or a fudge. But any judgment needs to take into account the geopolitical minefield in which these talks took place
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump, war, absent media: five threats to climate progress that dogged Cop30
Did the talks succeed or fail? The verdict must take account of the geopolitical minefield they took place in
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A debate is raging as to whether Cop30 was a success, a failure or a fudge. But any judgment needs to take into account the geopolitical minefield in which these talks took place
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Industry estimates put the number of data centres used by Amazon between 100 and 475 — but leaked figures show more than 900 in use, with many more in development
www.source-material.org/amazon-data-...
www.source-material.org/amazon-data-...
Leak reveals Amazon’s hidden data centres' impact on emissions
Soaring electricity demand in Mumbai, where Amazon has 16 data centres, has led to crumbling coal power stations being kept open.
www.source-material.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Industry estimates put the number of data centres used by Amazon between 100 and 475 — but leaked figures show more than 900 in use, with many more in development
www.source-material.org/amazon-data-...
www.source-material.org/amazon-data-...
UK wildfires have devastated more nature areas, including moorland and forests, this year than at any time since records began, figures show
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show
Firefighters call for long-term investment and say UK is dangerously underprepared as climate crisis worsens
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
UK wildfires have devastated more nature areas, including moorland and forests, this year than at any time since records began, figures show
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Reposted by Unearthed
NEW: Documents uncovered by Unearthed reveal that as PR giant Edelman was gearing up to play its advisory role at COP30, it was also lobbying for its Brazilian fossil fuel client Vibra Energia to help power the climate summit
Full story by @desmog.com below:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/21/e...
Full story by @desmog.com below:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/21/e...
Exclusive: COP30 PR Agency Edelman Lobbied Presidency to Favour Fossil Fuel Client
As Edelman prepared to work on the climate summit’s PR, the agency also lobbied for fuel distributor Vibra Energia to help power it.
www.desmog.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
NEW: Documents uncovered by Unearthed reveal that as PR giant Edelman was gearing up to play its advisory role at COP30, it was also lobbying for its Brazilian fossil fuel client Vibra Energia to help power the climate summit
Full story by @desmog.com below:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/21/e...
Full story by @desmog.com below:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/21/e...
NEW: Documents uncovered by Unearthed reveal that as PR giant Edelman was gearing up to play its advisory role at COP30, it was also lobbying for its Brazilian fossil fuel client Vibra Energia to help power the climate summit
Full story by @desmog.com below:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/21/e...
Full story by @desmog.com below:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/21/e...
Exclusive: COP30 PR Agency Edelman Lobbied Presidency to Favour Fossil Fuel Client
As Edelman prepared to work on the climate summit’s PR, the agency also lobbied for fuel distributor Vibra Energia to help power it.
www.desmog.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
NEW: Documents uncovered by Unearthed reveal that as PR giant Edelman was gearing up to play its advisory role at COP30, it was also lobbying for its Brazilian fossil fuel client Vibra Energia to help power the climate summit
Full story by @desmog.com below:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/21/e...
Full story by @desmog.com below:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/21/e...
A mystery of broken crab traps in Canada has been solved by this of a wolf dragging the submerged cage out of the water to eat the bait meat.
(n.b. This kind of sneaky food thievery may not surprise dog owners)
(n.b. This kind of sneaky food thievery may not surprise dog owners)
Video Reveals How Far Wolves Will Go to Steal a Meal
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A mystery of broken crab traps in Canada has been solved by this of a wolf dragging the submerged cage out of the water to eat the bait meat.
(n.b. This kind of sneaky food thievery may not surprise dog owners)
(n.b. This kind of sneaky food thievery may not surprise dog owners)
“The sheer numbers are horrifying. These are people with lives, with families, with hopes and dreams. They are people like us, even if they happen to live in a different part of the world.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most.
Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“The sheer numbers are horrifying. These are people with lives, with families, with hopes and dreams. They are people like us, even if they happen to live in a different part of the world.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s moves to boost fossil fuels and slashing efforts to reduce emissions will substantially increase the death toll from soaring temperatures, mostly in poor, hot countries in Africa and South Asia, a new @propublica.org analysis concludes
Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most.
Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Trump’s moves to boost fossil fuels and slashing efforts to reduce emissions will substantially increase the death toll from soaring temperatures, mostly in poor, hot countries in Africa and South Asia, a new @propublica.org analysis concludes
We already know what happens when a government guts insulation and clean energy programmes. It cost households billions in higher bills, and delays the transition to a cheaper and greener energy system.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Scrapping green subsidies is short-termist sabotage – and as usual the consumer will pay | Camilla Born
Weaning ourselves off gas is the only way to reduce energy bills long term. Cutting support for this is exactly the ‘sticking-plaster politics’ Labour promised to end, says CEO of Electrify Britain Ca...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We already know what happens when a government guts insulation and clean energy programmes. It cost households billions in higher bills, and delays the transition to a cheaper and greener energy system.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Brazil’s meat industry is mounting a campaign to convince the world it can produce beef with low carbon emissions
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Brazil Tries to Sell Skeptics on ‘Low-Carbon Beef’ at COP30
Brazil’s meat industry is mounting a campaign to convince the world it can produce beef with low carbon emissions — a claim that some experts say obscures beef’s heavy toll on the climate.
www.bloomberg.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Brazil’s meat industry is mounting a campaign to convince the world it can produce beef with low carbon emissions
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Powerful farming interests in Brazil, backed by a group of Brazilian politicians, are pushing to overturn a ban on growing soya on recently deforested land in the Amazon
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Brazil's Amazon rainforest at risk as key protection under threat
Brazilian farmers want to end a ban on planting soya on cleared land, which critics say would spur deforestation.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Powerful farming interests in Brazil, backed by a group of Brazilian politicians, are pushing to overturn a ban on growing soya on recently deforested land in the Amazon
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bayer's sponsorship of the agriculture pavilion at COP30 is "a golden opportunity to greenwash its image" says @corporateeurope.org
I Challenge Thee
www.corporateeurope.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Bayer's sponsorship of the agriculture pavilion at COP30 is "a golden opportunity to greenwash its image" says @corporateeurope.org
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber every single country's delegation at this year's Cop30 climate negotiations, apart from the host Brazil
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber every single country's delegation at this year's Cop30 climate negotiations, apart from the host Brazil
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"When a fire is really big, all the animals find this small spot where it’s not burning. Then it burns and they all die together."
A heartbreaking story of climate breakdown from where the #COP30 talks are taking place.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A heartbreaking story of climate breakdown from where the #COP30 talks are taking place.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘There’s fire all around us, this is it’ – This is climate breakdown
Working with jaguars in Brazil’s Pantanal was a huge source of joy. But the wildfires are getting worse. This is Abbie’s story
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"When a fire is really big, all the animals find this small spot where it’s not burning. Then it burns and they all die together."
A heartbreaking story of climate breakdown from where the #COP30 talks are taking place.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A heartbreaking story of climate breakdown from where the #COP30 talks are taking place.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Unearthed
I'm tracking how minerals needed for the energy transition are finally making it into the UN climate talks at #COP30 in Belém.
This is mostly happening under negotiations to ensure that the shift from fossil fuels to clean energy is fair, sustainable and doesn't foster new social injustices.
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This is mostly happening under negotiations to ensure that the shift from fossil fuels to clean energy is fair, sustainable and doesn't foster new social injustices.
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⛏️ COP30 could be the first to discuss the impacts and opportunities of mining the minerals needed for the energy transition.
tinyurl.com/392badee
The UN climate talks have never addressed the material dimension of the energy transition before.
I'm going to be tracking those discussions here👇
tinyurl.com/392badee
The UN climate talks have never addressed the material dimension of the energy transition before.
I'm going to be tracking those discussions here👇
COP30 could confront "glaring gap" in clean energy agenda: mining
Resource-rich developing countries want the impacts and benefits of mineral extraction to be part of climate talks
www.climatechangenews.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I'm tracking how minerals needed for the energy transition are finally making it into the UN climate talks at #COP30 in Belém.
This is mostly happening under negotiations to ensure that the shift from fossil fuels to clean energy is fair, sustainable and doesn't foster new social injustices.
🧵
This is mostly happening under negotiations to ensure that the shift from fossil fuels to clean energy is fair, sustainable and doesn't foster new social injustices.
🧵
Reposted by Unearthed
An influential team called the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance has laid out what it calls an "entirely feasible path" to mobilising $1.3tn by 2035.
This was the aspirational goal agreed at last year's COP.
Half of the finance in their pathway comes from the private sector.
This was the aspirational goal agreed at last year's COP.
Half of the finance in their pathway comes from the private sector.
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
An influential team called the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance has laid out what it calls an "entirely feasible path" to mobilising $1.3tn by 2035.
This was the aspirational goal agreed at last year's COP.
Half of the finance in their pathway comes from the private sector.
This was the aspirational goal agreed at last year's COP.
Half of the finance in their pathway comes from the private sector.
The world is expected to build more renewable energy projects in the next five years than in the previous 40, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency.
Despite the green backlash, the transition is now inevitable, it says.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Despite the green backlash, the transition is now inevitable, it says.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Supply boom in cheaper renewables will seal end of fossil fuel era, says IEA
Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The world is expected to build more renewable energy projects in the next five years than in the previous 40, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency.
Despite the green backlash, the transition is now inevitable, it says.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Despite the green backlash, the transition is now inevitable, it says.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Almost half a billion people now live within 1km of fossil fuel sites, such as drilling wells, processing plants or pipelines.
Such proximity can increase health risks such as from cancer, respiratory conditions and heart disease.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Such proximity can increase health risks such as from cancer, respiratory conditions and heart disease.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people – report
Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Almost half a billion people now live within 1km of fossil fuel sites, such as drilling wells, processing plants or pipelines.
Such proximity can increase health risks such as from cancer, respiratory conditions and heart disease.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Such proximity can increase health risks such as from cancer, respiratory conditions and heart disease.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bayer - sponsor of the "Agrizone" at COP30 - also sponsors a podcast which in 2023 interviewed a notorious climate change denier
On the episode, Luiz Carlos Molion says the IPCC spreads “climate terrorism” and CO2's effect is too small to measure.
More:
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/11/11/c...
On the episode, Luiz Carlos Molion says the IPCC spreads “climate terrorism” and CO2's effect is too small to measure.
More:
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/11/11/c...
COP30’s agriculture showcase sponsored by agribiz interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying
Sponsors of the sustainable agriculture pavilion at COP30 will include pesticides giant Bayer, alleged by campaigners to be driving “massive deforestation” on the continent, and a branch of Brazil’s l...
unearthed.greenpeace.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Bayer - sponsor of the "Agrizone" at COP30 - also sponsors a podcast which in 2023 interviewed a notorious climate change denier
On the episode, Luiz Carlos Molion says the IPCC spreads “climate terrorism” and CO2's effect is too small to measure.
More:
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/11/11/c...
On the episode, Luiz Carlos Molion says the IPCC spreads “climate terrorism” and CO2's effect is too small to measure.
More:
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/11/11/c...
Reposted by Unearthed
NEW: The "Agrizone" at COP30 is supposed to be a showcase for sustainable agriculture 🌳
But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain"
Read more 👇:
But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain"
Read more 👇:
COP30’s agriculture showcase sponsored by agribiz interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying
Sponsors of the sustainable agriculture pavilion at COP30 will include pesticides giant Bayer, alleged by campaigners to be driving “massive deforestation” on the continent, and a branch of Brazil’s l...
unearthed.greenpeace.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
NEW: The "Agrizone" at COP30 is supposed to be a showcase for sustainable agriculture 🌳
But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain"
Read more 👇:
But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain"
Read more 👇:
Reposted by Unearthed
🔴 NEW 🔴
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit
📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit
📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement al...
www.desmog.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🔴 NEW 🔴
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit
📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit
📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
Reposted by Unearthed
As part of its pivot away from renewable energy, Shell has abandoned plans for offshore wind projects off the coast of Scotland
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Shell Cancels Plans for Scottish Offshore Wind Projects
Shell Plc canceled plans to build two wind farms off the coast of Scotland as the British oil major pulls back from significant investments in the sector.
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
As part of its pivot away from renewable energy, Shell has abandoned plans for offshore wind projects off the coast of Scotland
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NEW: The "Agrizone" at COP30 is supposed to be a showcase for sustainable agriculture 🌳
But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain"
Read more 👇:
But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain"
Read more 👇:
COP30’s agriculture showcase sponsored by agribiz interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying
Sponsors of the sustainable agriculture pavilion at COP30 will include pesticides giant Bayer, alleged by campaigners to be driving “massive deforestation” on the continent, and a branch of Brazil’s l...
unearthed.greenpeace.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
NEW: The "Agrizone" at COP30 is supposed to be a showcase for sustainable agriculture 🌳
But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain"
Read more 👇:
But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain"
Read more 👇:
• Power sector emissions were flat, even as demand growth accelerated
• Solar grew by 46% and wind by 11% year-on-year
• Oil emissions in the transport sector fell by 5% in the third quarter, but grew elsewhere due to the production of plastics and chemicals
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
• Solar grew by 46% and wind by 11% year-on-year
• Oil emissions in the transport sector fell by 5% in the third quarter, but grew elsewhere due to the production of plastics and chemicals
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.
www.carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
• Power sector emissions were flat, even as demand growth accelerated
• Solar grew by 46% and wind by 11% year-on-year
• Oil emissions in the transport sector fell by 5% in the third quarter, but grew elsewhere due to the production of plastics and chemicals
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
• Solar grew by 46% and wind by 11% year-on-year
• Oil emissions in the transport sector fell by 5% in the third quarter, but grew elsewhere due to the production of plastics and chemicals
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...