The Latest Breaking News from COP

Negotiations over the strengthened Gender Action Plan (GAP) have entered a tense phase at the COP30 climate summit after disputes broke out on how to define gender. A conservative bloc is seeking to reduce the definition to biological sex — a shift that would erase trans and non-binary people from…

UN secretary-general António Guterres earlier used speech at Belem summit to urge countries to find compromises in final hours of negotiations

ON THE GROUND: Residents of Belém’s favelas – or ‘baixadas’ as they are known here – tell Nick Ferris of the daily climate challenges they are facing and explain why they are sceptical that Cop30 will really help them

After a long and deadlocked bidding process for Australia and Pacific Island nations to co-host the UN climate summit (COP31), the event will now be hosted by Turkey. Australia’s Climate Minister, Chris Bowen, will reportedly take a key role as “COP President for negotiations”. More details are yet to emerge.

At the last possible minute, Australia has backed away from its bid to host the United Nations COP31 climate summit next year in Adelaide alongside Pacific nations.

Pacific advocates hope their climate ambitions can still be achieved from the wreckage of Australia's bid to host the COP31 summit.

Fortnight-long event to be held in Antalya but Australian climate change minister Chris Bowen expected to lead the negotiations

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are jumping into the United Nations climate talks as they get to crunch time

Report commissioned by conservationists suggests some recorded new growth is misclassified or otherwise not equivalent to losses in species-heavy forests

As president Lula tries to find common ground between negotiating countries, planetary scientists say emissions must be urgently cut

Countries from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Pacific and Europe plead for transition to be central outcome of talks