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November 11, 2025 9:48 AM

Ethiopia to be approved as host for COP32 climate summit in 2027

Ethiopia is set to be confirmed on Tuesday as host of the COP32 climate summit in 2027, the president of this year's COP30 gathering told Reuters. The choice of host for next year's COP31 remains a point of contention, however, with both Australia and Turkey vying for the 2026 event. Australia made its COP31 bid in partnership with the Pacific Islands, which are considered to be among the world's most vulnerable places to climate change. Participating countries agreed in principle to hold the ...

November 10, 2025 1:42 PM

Indigenous leaders join COP30 climate summit as it opens with unclear outcome ahead

As COP30 opens on Monday for the more than 190 countries participating, it was unclear what exactly they would discuss during the two-week U.N. summit in Brazil’s Amazon city of Belem. Also unclear is how they’ll handle testy issues, such as a 2023 pledge to wean off polluting energy sources and demand for financing to make that happen. But the biggest question mark was whether countries would aim to negotiate a final agreement – a hard sell in a year of fractious global politics and U.S....

November 9, 2025 5:39 PM

What is the COP30 climate summit, and why does it matter?

Every year, the U.N. climate conference conjures hundreds of headlines on global efforts to spare the world from climate catastrophe. This year's begins on Monday in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belem. But what exactly happens at these annual summits? Here’s what you need to know: WHAT IS A COP? The annual conference is known as a COP, which stands for Conference of the Parties that signed the 1992 U.N. climate treaty. The treaty, called the U.N. Framework on Climate Change Convention ...

November 9, 2025 2:22 PM

As COP30 gathers, what’s the latest in climate science?

With the pace of climate change speeding up, extreme weather and other impacts are taking an increasing toll on populations and environments across the globe. Here are some of the developments this year in climate science: WARMER, FASTER Global temperatures are not just climbing, they are now climbing faster than before, with new records logged for 2023 and 2024, and at points in 2025. That finding was part of a key study in June that updated baseline data used in the science reports done ever...

November 7, 2025 9:24 PM

Brazil probes threat to COP30 host city’s power grid after deadly Rio raid

Brazilian authorities are investigating a reported threat to a power substation in the city hosting a United Nations climate summit, with possible links to the gang targeted by a deadly police raid last week, a document seen by Reuters showed on Friday. Brazil is hosting world leaders at a summit ahead of the COP30 climate talks in the Amazonian city of Belem, a week after Rio police targeted the Comando Vermelho gang in an operation that killed 121 people, drawing concern from U.N. experts. O...

November 6, 2025 4:55 PM

Sao Paulo hosts business leaders as COP30 prepares to launch in Belem

As world leaders gather in Brazil for the COP30 climate talks, the business and finance leaders they are hoping will bankroll the fight against global warming are thousands of miles away on the other side of the country – by design. Many of the executives who attended recent U.N. climate summits in Baku, Dubai, Sharm el-Sheikh and Glasgow have clustered this week in the business center of Sao Paulo, rather than jockeying for hard-to-find hotel rooms in the smaller Amazonian ci...

November 5, 2025 4:00 PM

EU agrees weakened climate target in final-hour deal for COP30

EU climate ministers agreed a 2040 climate change target in the early hours of Wednesday after watering down the goal in last-minute negotiations, as they raced to clinch the deal before the U.N. COP30 summit in Brazil. After negotiating late into Tuesday night, climate ministers from European Union countries approved in a public vote a compromise to cut emissions 90% by 2040, from 1990 levels, but with flexibilities to weaken this aim. The weakened target would let countries buy foreign carbo...

November 4, 2025 4:48 PM

EU in last-minute talks to set new climate goal for COP30

EU climate ministers will make a last-ditch attempt to pass a new climate change target on Tuesday, in an effort to avoid going to the U.N. COP30 summit in Brazil empty-handed. Failure to agree could undermine the European Union's claims to leadership at the COP30 talks, which will test the will of major economies to keep fighting climate change despite opposition from U.S. President Donald Trump. But the EU, which has some of the world's most ambitious CO2-cutting policies, has struggled to c...

October 31, 2025 6:42 PM

EU countries split over 2040 climate goal as COP30 looms

European Union countries remain split over their new climate change target and are still debating changes, just days before their ministers are due to approve the goal, according to diplomats and EU documents seen by Reuters on Friday. The EU is racing to approve a climate target, with the European Commission aiming to reduce planet-warming emissions 90% by 2040, even as some member states worry over the costs to struggling domestic industries. Failure to reach an agreement would leave Commiss...

October 28, 2025 11:08 AM

Billionaire Bill Gates calls for climate strategy pivot ahead of COP30

Billionaire investor and philanthropist Bill Gates called on world leaders on Tuesday to adapt to extreme weather and focus on improving health outcomes rather than temperature reduction targets ahead of the COP30 climate talks in Brazil. COP30 will be held November 10-21 in the port city of Belem in Brazil's lower Amazon region. Countries are due to present updated national climate commitments and assess progress on renewable energy targets agreed at previous summits. The world has spent the ...