The Latest Breaking News from Cop30

DISPATCH FROM BRAZIL: The US president’s loud cries of a climate ‘con job’ are being ignored, Nick Ferris writes from Belem

The UN Climate Change Conference takes place in Belém, Brazil, next week... And Paul McCartney has some thoughts regarding the menu.

The Prince of Wales has made a landmark speech at the Cop30 summit in Brazil.

The Prince of Wales made a landmark speech at the global climate summit in the Amazon in Brazil

Scientists warn coral ecosystems, on which nearly a billion people depend for food and livelihood, are tipping into irreversible decline

King Charles and Prince William visited the Natural History Museum together

World leaders gathered in New York are putting climate action under the spotlight, using this week’s UN summit to lay the groundwork for November's Cop30 meeting in Brazil.

As US reneges on climate breakdown pledges, China’s response to crisis will shape geopolitics and our future

With two months to go, the "COP30 Hotel," spruced up and renamed after the UN climate conference due to take place in the Amazonian city of Belem in November, has zero bookings.

Tzeporah Berman’s campaign group believes Cop30 will help its initiative to phase out oil, coal and gas take shape

Cop30, the UN climate summit scheduled to take place this November in the Brazilian city of Belém, is embroiled in a controversy that has nothing to do with solving the planet’s environmental problems. Currently occupying debate about the conference is what Brazil’s press is calling the “hosting crisis”.