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NEW – UK budget 2025: Key climate and energy announcements | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org

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Chancellor of Exchequer Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing Street on 26 November 2025. Credit: Simon Dawson / Flickr
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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✨Carbon Brief's mega summary of all of COP30's key outcomes, texts and dramas has just been published✨

Always a pleasure to work alongside a team of such talented and dedicated people to bring you this piece!

We hope you enjoy and let us know what you think

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November 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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OUT NOW: All you need to know about COP30, brought to you by @carbonbrief.org

Our 20k word explainer breaks down:
🛢️ What happened with the fossil fuel roadmap push?
💰 Who wanted (and got) what on climate finance?
🇨🇳 Did China step up as a climate leader?

Find out here ⬇️
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November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨

It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…

–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more

Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast

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November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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NEW – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém

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#COP30
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Carbon Brief has published its 20,000-word summary of everything that happened at #COP30, incl:
🇧🇷 Brazil's leadership and around the COP
🤝 The ‘Global mutirão’ text
💰 A new tripling adaptation finance goal
💥 The JTWP's Belem Action Mechanism
⌨️ And so much more
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COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém - Carbon Brief
A voluntary plan to curb fossil fuels, a goal to triple adaptation finance and new...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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🆕 UNILATERAL TRADE MEASURES #COP30

After fighting for inclusion on COP agendas in Dubai, Baku and Belém, climate-related trade measures are on the verge of having their big moment on the cover of COP30 climate talks.
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Shots fired #COP30 plenary

PANAMA: "Mr. President, Panama is extremely disappointed. We were promised a transparent process. That is not what we're seeing. I raise my flag and you ignore it. I raise a point of order, and you ignore it. I sustain it, and it can be ignored."
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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COP30's key text, the global mutirão, just adopted here in Belém 🇧🇷
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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New Global Mutirão text retains a "call for efforts" to triple adaptation finance, but pushes the deadline for this to 2035 - five years later than the previous draft and what the LDCs and other developing parties have called for

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November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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COP30 DeBriefed | ‘Mutirão’ text latest; ‘Roadmaps’ explained; COP finish times plotted

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November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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New global goal on adaptation text!

It both "adopts the Belém Adaptation Indicators" and establishes a two-year "Belém–Addis"programme for policy alignment, in what seems to be a compromise

The one outstanding para points to the mutirão text, which "calls for efforts to triple adaptation finance"
November 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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As part of a wave of new COP30 texts dropped this morning, there is a new, clean version of the just transition work programme.

Crucially, this "decides" to develop a just transition mechanism - the Belem Action Mechanism (BAM) - proposed originally by civil society and taken up by G77+China
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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COP30 ADAPTATION FINANCE: It's worth recalling the previous goal, adopted at COP26

Specifically, this "urge[d]" developed countries to "at least" double adaptation finance from 2019-2025

This is same wording as Opt 3 in latest COP30 draft, altho that also adds an annual dialogue on progress
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Big fire in the Blue zone at COP30, people ran away shouting ‘fire’ and the building was evacuated,

Hearing reports that it is now contained,

(All CB staff were safely evacuated)
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Speaking at #COP30 UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, said we need a “fair outcome” with “concrete adaption finance” from the summit

He highlighted that the precious goal to double adaptation finance is “slipping away”, and urged countries to find compromise to enable a new tripling goal
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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After about 75 hours spent on a review of the Warsaw International Mechanism for loss & damage – a process that spilled over from previous talks – negotiators are making slow progress at COP30.

A draft text has now been published, but the whole thing is bracketed – a sign of continuing disagreement
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Turkey has been confirmed as the host of COP31, after Australia conceded this evening,

However, Australian climate and energy minister Chris Bowen will be appointed as COP31 President and a ‘pre COP’ will be held in the Pacific
November 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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In a media huddle earlier at COP30, Latam ministers emphasised the urgent need to adopt the indicators as part of the global goal on adaptation in Belem.

Edgardo Ortuño Silva (Uruguay) said: "We will not accept less in our conference than the adoption of action indicators and implementation means."
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Civil society is calling for adaptation finance at #COP30

The goal to double adaption finance - agreed in Glasgow in 2021 - comes to an end this year, and isn’t going to be met.

LDCs are calling for a goal to triple adaptation finance, but it remains a contentious issue in negotiations
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Oh wow, this @roycerk2.bsky.social piece on Australia at #COP30

@chrisbowenmp.bsky.social turns up a at a carbon offsets lobby group event - and misses the fossil fuel exit roadmap event.

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Chris Bowen was man of the hour on Monday night in Belém. The Carbon Market Institute hosted the reception for his arrival in Brazil, a tradition at every COP and the presence of the Climate Change and Energy Minister was the drawcard. The event was billed as an exclusive, RSVP-only event with an open bar, held in the massive exhibition hall in front of the Australia pavilion, next door to the Turkish pavilion and directly across from China. Before long the number of people who turned up spilled out beyond the walkway, and the organisers had given up. Bowen had moved through the crowd, shaking hands and making small talk until it came time to speak. His subject was Australia’s bid to host COP-31 in South Australia and his address was designed to rally the troops. People had come to him saying they had heard Australia was giving up, he said, others had suggested Australia had it in the bag. Australia took a “pragmatic” and “sensible” approach to climate change, he said. Turkiye was still refusing to budge in an act of brinkmanship with both the COP process and the nomination, but Australia was not giving up and would keep pushing until the last. “It is not done yet, it is not resolved,” Bowen said. “We’re in it to win it, we’re in it to the end.” It was a phrase Bowen had repeated throughout the day, a typically Australian appeal to sporting idioms when under pressure, one that felt flat to outsiders. His presence, however, had suddenly filled a vacuum. Australia had initially sent Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy Josh Wilson to represent the government in the opening stages of the process. Wilson flew out on Thursday, and in the four days before Bowen’s arrival on Sunday, the vacuum in leadership it created left the Australian delegation without a decision maker. Into this gap flooded an ocean of rumour, speculation, gossip, cynicism and unbounded optimism. Once on the ground, Bowen had wisely sought to make his presence felt. On Monday, he … A day later, Australia was criticised for sitting out a public call by more than 20 climate ministers for a clear roadmap away from fossil fuels to be adopted before the end of the conference. On Tuesday afternoon, local time in Belém, the group appeared at a press conference organised by the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, to demonstrate public support for a plan outlining how the world might phase out oil, gas and coal. It included Ed Miliband, UK Secretary of State, Climate Change and Energy, Tina Stege, Climate Envoy for Marshall Islands, Carsten Schneider, German Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety of Germany, Irene Velez Torres, Colombian Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development, Ali Mohamed, Kenyan Climate Change Envoy, Jiwoh Abdulai and Sierra Leone’s Minister for Environment and Climate. Absent was Bowen, although Australia is understood to have privately signalled support for the adoption of a roadmap in some form. Speaking at the conference, Miliband said that the group represented a “global coalition with Global North and Global South countries” saying the UK was already taking steps to end oil and gas expansion. “We have an opportunity to make COP30 the moment we take forward what we agreed at COP28,” he said. “The actions we are taking in the UK not to issue new oil and gas licenses is about climate, energy security and costs.” “The more secure option for us is cheap, clean renewables. We prioritise this not because it is easy, but because it is hard. This is an issue that must not be ignored, cannot be ignored, and we are saying very clearly it must be at the heart of this cop.” Tina Stege, Climate envoy, Republic of Marshall Islands, described current proposals as “weak”.
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Speaking at a briefing last night, COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago discussed the roadblocks in the GGA, incl. finance:

“We want this to be an adaptation COP. The Global Goal on Adaptation is absolutely central, and, obviously, the push for an increase in adaptation resources is significant.”
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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In a GGA huddle yesterday, LDC adaptation leads called for a tripling of finance:

"Indicators are good...[but] indicators don't rebuild our washed-away villages, they don't fix our buildings. Indicators only show you what's going on. So beyond the indicators, we're asking for adaptation finance."
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Another loss & damage agenda item has seemingly been signed off at COP30 – the report on the Loss and Damage Fund.

Around $800m has been pledged to the fund but only $583 provided.

Last week $250m was allocated for the fund's start-up phase – dubbed the Barbados Implementation Modalities...
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Beyond the big COP30 issue of Article 9.1 climate finance for developing countries, the new draft cover text contains potential ways forward for the "Baku to Belem roadmap" to $1.3tn.

It is covered by one of the "workstreams" being proposed as ways to advance "roadmaps" on various finance issues.
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM