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#COP30 AGENDA FIGHT: Battle looms over which issues to discuss at COP30 (an "agenda fight")

Proposed late additions to agenda:

* trade
* finance
* deforestation
* ambition
* reporting

Hence, now on 4th version of agenda (!)

This must be resolved before negotiations begin 🧵

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November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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NEW – Ongoing failure to agree AR7 timeline is ‘unprecedented’ in IPCC history | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org

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Ongoing failure to agree AR7 timeline is ‘unprecedented’ in IPCC history - Carbon Brief
Governments have, once again, failed to agree on a timeline for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seventh assessment cycle (AR7)
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November 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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On Monday, Carbon Brief will host the first of three live “Ask Us Anything’ COP30 webinars, as part of our new COP30 Insider Pass package.

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November 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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NEW – COP30: What does the ‘Baku to Belém roadmap’ mean for climate finance? | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social w/ comment from @jalokaje.bsky.social Sarah Colenbrander @rebeccathissen.bsky.social Rebecca Newsom

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Aerial view of Belém, Brazil. Credit: Paralaxis / Alamy Stock Photo
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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NEW – Interactive: Who wants what at the COP30 climate change summit | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org

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Interactive: Who wants what at the COP30 climate change summit - Carbon Brief
In order to track parties’ positions on negotiating points at COP30, Carbon Brief has analysed nearly 100 submissions to the UN and captured them in a table
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November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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It’s that time of the year. @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org and I trawled through hundreds of govt submissions to bring you the COP30 edition of @carbonbrief.org’s Who Wants What.
November 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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UPDATED: Yesterday, China released its full 2035 climate pledge, building on Xi's UN speech. Our updated @carbonbrief.org analysis dives into the details, inc:

🌎 What the NDC says about the US
🗞️ Reactions to the targets
⚡ China's 2035 plans for coal

Find out more ⬇️
Q&A: What does China’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action? - Carbon Brief
President Xi Jinping has pledged to cut China’s greenhouse gas emissions to 7-10% below peak levels by 2035, while “striving to do better”.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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NEW – UNEP: New country climate plans ‘barely move needle’ on expected warming | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @unep.org

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Chart showing that greenhouse gas emissions remain far off track for the Paris Agreement goal. Historical and projected global emissions over 2015-35 under the current policy (dark blue), unconditional NDCs (mid blue), conditional NDCs (light blue), 2C (pink) and 1.5C (red) scenarios. There is a 66% chance that warming this century will remain below the levels shown on each of the pathways. Chart by Carbon Brief.
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Adaptation is going to be a key area of negotiation at #COP30 in Belem next week, including landing on 100 indicators to track progress on adapting to climate change under the GGA

Ahead of COP kicking off, I took a look at the GGA and how experts whittled down the list of 10k indicators to just 100
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NEW – Q&A: COP30 could – finally – agree how to track the ‘global goal on adaptation’ | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from Portia Adade Williams @bethan-laughlin.bsky.social Ana Mulio Alvarez
@lisaschipper.bsky.social Emilie Beauchamp

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Members of the G-77/China huddle during informal consultations on 19 June 2025. Credit: IISD/ENB - Kiara Worth
November 4, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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NEW – Q&A: The UK government’s ‘carbon budget delivery plan’ for 2035 | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org

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Q&A: The UK government’s ‘carbon budget delivery plan’ for 2035 - Carbon Brief
The UK government has set out a long-awaited plan explaining how it will cut emissions...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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DESNZ have dropped the new Carbon Plan. I have two tests: is this legally robust, and does it have a plausible pathway for heat? /1
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Carbon budget and growth delivery plan
The Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan sets out how the government meets its statutory carbon budgets and secure the benefits of this transition for people and businesses.
www.gov.uk
October 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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FACTCHECK: The frontpage of today's Daily Telegraph has a very confused story about offshore wind, which is all sorts of wrong

It says a technical change means higher subsidies & fewer new windfarms from the upcoming AR7 auction

Oopsie!

This is the opposite of the truth 🧵
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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GET MORE CARBON BRIEF: If you want the inside track on #COP30, sign up for our new "COP30 Insider Pass"

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October 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Do you want exclusive access to COP30?

Carbon Brief is launching the COP30 Insider Pass – a two-week, all-access package designed for those who need more than headlines, for only £5.

Find out more ⬇️
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October 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Carbon Brief is introducing the COP30 Insider Pass for those who need more than headlines from Belem.

What the pass gives you access to:
📲 An invite-only WhatsApp group
📩 A daily email newsletter
🗣️ ​​3 exclusive 'Ask Us Anything' webinars

Sign up ⬇️
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October 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Keir Starmer will attend the climate talks in Brazil after all.

The right decision.

I hope the government supports efforts to restore rainforests at COP30 - both tropical and temperate!

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer will attend Cop30 in Brazil, No 10 confirms
After speculation and conflicting pressures, prime minister will attend climate summit next month
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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INTERVIEW: I sat down with @thecccuk.bsky.social chief @elpinchbeck.bsky.social to talk UK progress in cutting emissions, attacks on the Climate Change Act, media misinformation, talking to kids about global warming & more

Full transcript + vid + recording:

www.carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-b...
October 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Reposted by Molly Lempriere
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FACTCHECK: Claire Coutinho claims UK gas power only costs £55/MWh…

…but she is ignoring a few small details:

🤫 Gas prices always rise in winter
🤫 Gas plants cost money to build
🤫 CO2 causes economic damages

THREAD with receipts

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October 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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NEW | Solar and wind OUTPACED global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025, leading to a fall in fossil fuels compared to this time last year ☀️🌪️

Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time.

https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk
October 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Kemi Badenoch has been saying a lot of stuff that isn't true recently.

We've taken a look through some of the things she and her Conservative colleagues have been saying as they pledge to “repeal” the Climate Change Act.

➡️ www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
Factcheck: What the Climate Change Act does – and does not – mean for the UK - Carbon Brief
The UK’s Climate Change Act is a landmark piece of legislation that guides the nation’s response to global warming and has proved highly influential around the world.
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October 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* #methane metric means for farming emissions

By @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org
#climatecrisis
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Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions - Carbon Brief
A controversial way of measuring how much methane warms the planet has stirred debate in recent years – particularly around assessing the climate impact of livestock farming.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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This is really good. Nothing about the CCA has obliged the Government to go down the centrally planning route the Conservatives now decry. Moreover, the Conservatives were in office for all but two of the first 17 years of the CCA. /1
drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · Oct 7
FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense

Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act

Feat. OG authors of the Act & more

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
October 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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A brilliant piece on what the UK's Climate Change Act does, why it's inspired action around the world, and how the Tories were key to creating it - despite their current leader now wanting to destroy it

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drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · Oct 7
FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense

Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act

Feat. OG authors of the Act & more

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
October 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reposted by Molly Lempriere
drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense

Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act

Feat. OG authors of the Act & more

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
October 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Reposted by Molly Lempriere
carbonbrief.org
NEW – Factcheck: What the Climate Change Act does – and does not – mean for the UK | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org

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Cumulative number of countries with “climate change framework laws”, as defined by the Climate Change Laws of the World database. When countries have updated laws or introduced additional framework legislation, duplicates have been removed. Source: Climate Change Laws of the World.
October 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM