COP30 | DD News

November 23, 2025 9:50 AM

India welcomes key outcomes at COP30, reaffirms push for equity and climate justice

India has welcomed the major outcomes of the UNFCCC COP30 in Belém, reaffirming its long-standing position on equity, climate justice, and the fulfillment of global commitments on climate finance. In its high-level statement delivered during the Closing Plenary on November 22, India expressed appreciation for the inclusive leadership of the Brazilian CoP Presidency. Acknowledging the Presidency’s balanced approach, guided by the Brazilian ethos of Mutirão, India said the decisions taken at ...

November 21, 2025 4:53 PM

COP30 draft deal drops effort for new fossil fuel transition agreement

COP30 summit president Brazil released a draft text for a proposed deal for this year's U.N. climate summit early on Friday, dropping a proposal to develop a global plan to shift away from fossil fuels that had been included in an earlier version. The issue has been one of the most contentious at the two-week conference of nearly 200 governments in Brazil's Amazon city of Belem. For days, nations have wrangled over the future of fossil fuels, whose burning emits greenhouse gases that are by fa...

November 21, 2025 3:48 PM

India stresses global equity, people-centric approach to Just Transition at CoP30 in Belem

India called for a fair, inclusive and people-focused approach to global climate action during the Third Annual High-Level Ministerial Roundtable on Just Transition at UNFCCC CoP30 in Belem, Brazil. Addressing delegates on Thursday, Union Environment Minister Bhupender underscored that a truly just transition must extend far beyond the energy sector, describing it as an “economy-wide, all-inclusive, people-centred transformation” that respects national circumstances and upholds the principl...

November 20, 2025 11:32 AM

Brazil’s Lula makes diplomatic push for early climate deal at COP30 summit

Brazil's president was meeting with key negotiators at the COP30 summit on Wednesday as part of a drive to land an early deal on some of the most divisive issues in the global climate talks, including fossil fuels and climate finance. The two-week U.N. summit in the Amazon city of Belem has brought nearly 200 countries together to try to ratchet up multilateral action to limit climate change, despite the absence of the U.S., the top historic greenhouse gas emitter. But rifts on key...

November 20, 2025 10:46 AM

India pushes stronger global cooperation to boost energy security for small island states at COP30

India on Wednesday called for stronger global cooperation to improve energy security for Small Island Developing States (SIDS), as Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav participated in the ISA SIDS Leadership Session on the sidelines of the UN climate summit in Belem, Brazil. Addressing the session, Yadav said SIDS remain highly vulnerable due to their dependence on imported fossil fuels, climate-related disruptions and fragile infrastructure. He noted that the International Solar Alliance (ISA)...

November 20, 2025 10:11 AM

India says Joint Crediting Mechanism key to scaling equitable climate action at CoP30

India on Wednesday described the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) as a key instrument for expanding equitable and technology-driven climate action, as Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav joined the 11th JCM Partner Countries’ Meeting on the sidelines of the UN climate summit in Belem, Brazil. The JCM is a bilateral initiative that allows a partner country, such as India, to cooperate with Japan to implement low-carbon projects and receive carbon credits. These credits, generated from proje...

November 16, 2025 3:24 PM

Climate protesters swelter in Brazilian sun outside COP30 summit

Thousands of climate protesters marched through the Brazilian city of Belem on Saturday in a noisy, diverse and peaceful display to demand more action to protect the fate of the planet and to vent their anger at governments and fossil fuel industries. A short distance away, negotiators reached the halfway point in the marathon COP30 climate summit, which seeks to turn years of promises into action to halt rising global temperatures and deliver support to those most affected by a warmer planet. ...

November 14, 2025 9:01 AM

Deadly heat worldwide prompts $300 mln funds for climate health research at COP30

With more than a half-million people worldwide dying from heat-related causes every year, a group of philanthropies is putting $300 million into developing life-saving solutions as global temperatures continue to rise. The money, announced this week at the COP30 climate negotiations in Brazil, is aimed at developing data and figuring out the best investments for tackling rising risks from extreme heat, air pollution and infectious disease. “We are a philanthropy. We can't just keep plugg...

November 11, 2025 2:40 PM

COP30 highlights growing need of countries for resilience to storms, flood and fires

With typhoons tearing across Southeast Asia this week while areas of Jamaica and Brazil are still clearing debris from damaging storms, delegates at Brazil's COP30 summit began grappling with how best to help the vulnerable withstand worsening weather and other climate extremes. The topic of "adaptation" has grown more important as countries fail to rein in climate-warming emissions enough to prevent extreme warming linked to increasingly frequent weather disasters across the planet. A U.N. rep...

November 11, 2025 11:58 AM

What is climate finance and why does it matter?

Countries trying to shift to clean energy while also preparing for extreme weather and other impacts in a warmer world will need money - a lot of it. As the costs and risks of global warming escalate, the topic of climate finance has become more tense. Here's what you need to know: WHAT IS CLIMATE FINANCE? This describes all funding from governments, development banks, private investors and philanthropies aimed at helping countries cut greenhouse gas emissions or adapt to climate impacts, for ...