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Cop30 live: standoff over inclusion of fossil fuel phaseout in final text escalates

admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:53:32 +0000

Following a dramatic fire yesterday, the climate summit is due to finish this evening, but disagreements over the final text look difficult to resolve

Away from the hustle and bustle of this year’s Cop esteemed Guardian journalist Paul Brown takes a poignant and sobering long view of the process in his final column.

As we wait for more reaction to the text it is worth catching up with this piece on Saudi Arabia and its role as the biggest blocker of climate action – even while its population wrestle with the devastating impacts of the climate crisis.

A lot of axolotls: the amphibian-themed banknote Mexicans don’t want to spend

admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:00:06 +0000

Nearly 13m people are hoarding millions of dollars’ worth of the stylish 50 peso note, featuring Mexico’s cutest critter

For most of her life, Gorda was just an axolotl who lived in a museum in Mexico City – that is, until she became the star of the country’s favourite banknote.

There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers | George Monbiot

admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:00:05 +0000

Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth?

Week in wildlife: traffic-stopping reindeer, wildcats and a giraffe on the move

admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:00:04 +0000

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

Three-metre giant oarfish, ‘palace messenger’ of doom, washes up on Tasmanian beach

admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 07:48:45 +0000

The enormous, serpentine fish, regarded in Japanese folklore as a herald of disaster, usually live deep below the surface and are only sighted when sick or dying

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It was a beautiful warm day in north-west Tasmania when a fish with a reputation as a harbinger of doom washed ashore.

Cop30 draft text omits mention of fossil fuel phase-out roadmap

admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 01:26:29 +0000

Exclusive: Summit leadership releases new text despite 29 nations threatening to block progress without commitment

A new draft text on the outcome of the Cop30 climate talks has been published that contains no mention of a phase-out of fossil fuels, despite countries supporting such action having threatened to block any agreement without it.

White House announces new oil and gas drilling off California and Florida

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 23:54:35 +0000

But Sunshine state Republicans might oppose drilling off state’s famous beaches that keep tourism dollars coming in

Pelosi calls Trump ‘the biggest con job in American history’ in reply to climate comment

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:20:55 +0000

US speaker emerita criticizes Trump’s anti-climate stance and his remarks to the UN general assembly

“President Trump is the biggest con job in American history,” said Nancy Pelosi, the US speaker emerita, to reporters on Thursday while criticizing his anti-climate agenda.

Cop30 climate summit in Brazil disrupted after fire breaks out in venue

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:28:08 +0000

Event thrown into confusion and 13 treated for smoke inhalation after conference centre evacuated

Brazilian president will take fossil fuel phase-out plan to G20 summit

Talks at the Cop30 climate summit in Brazil were disrupted on Thursday after a fire broke out in the venue, triggering an evacuation just as negotiators were preparing to try to land a deal to strengthen international efforts to address the climate crisis.

Brazilian president will take fossil fuel phase-out plan to G20 summit

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:29:43 +0000

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he is ready to fight for transition roadmap despite opposition from some states

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The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has told Cop30 delegates that he will take his fossil fuel transition roadmap to the G20 in Johannesburg this week to campaign for it, despite reports that petrostates have said they will not accept the plan.