COP30

Brazil’s COP30 presidency pushed a compromise climate deal through in the Amazon city of Belém on Saturday that boosts finance for poorer nations but omits any explicit mention of fossil fuels — a glaring absence that exposed deep fractures among negotiating parties. The two-week summit, intended to show nations can still join forces on climate change after the United States declined to send an official delegation, ended after overnight negotiations and an overtime plenary in which several countries formally registered…

A new front in the climate battle: defending truth at COP30 Belem’s humid air this week carried more than the tang of the Amazon. At the UN Pavilion during COP30, delegates and activists gathered to talk emissions, finance and loss and damage — but one of the loudest pleas came from an unexpected corner: the newsroom. Omar Faruk Osman, secretary general of the National Union of Somali Journalists, used a high-level UNESCO panel to argue that the integrity of information is now a frontline issue for climate action. The…