Photos show Indigenous participants at the People's Summit held alongside the COP30 climate meeting

While delegates at a U.N. conference discussed how to fulfill past promises on fighting climate change, a boisterous ...

A flotilla kicks off the People’s Summit for activists at UN climate talks

As United Nation climate talks get underway in Belem, a different kind of conference is kicking off: the People’s Summit, a ...
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Jamaica and small island states want new push on 1.5C target

As COP30 climate talks kicked off in Brazil's port city of Belem on Monday, opening speeches in the Amazonas hall were heavy ...
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Jamaica and small islands warn COP30 that 1.5 target is “lifeline”

Small islands want to inject new life into the 1.5C target, with the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) proposing a COP30 agenda item to more aggressively track targets as countries’ climate ...

Indigenous groups get the spotlight at UN climate talks, but some say visibility isn’t power

Edson Krenak, of the Krenak people and Brazil manager for Indigenous rights group Cultural Survival, said he has seen less ...

Brazil straddles oil riches, climate threats as COP30 opens in Amazon

In Oiapoque, Brazil, hopes that oil will transform the economy hangs in air, after the government granted state-owned company ...

How South America became the up-and-coming oil capital of the world

The region is seeing a boom in fossil fuels just as the impacts of the climate crisis really bite. It’s raising thorny ...