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Jamaica faces $9.5 billion finance gap to rebuild after Melissa

Jamaica asking wealthy countries to urgently offer grants, investment and concessional finance

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Philip McMaster, known as Sustaina Claus, participates in a demonstration with letters from young children about their hopes for the future to the COP presidency during the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025, in Belem, Brazil

Heat deaths to surge under Trumps anti-climate agenda, study finds

Albertas COP30 delegate is a former oil industry lobbyist

A former lobbyist for Canada's largest oil and gas producers is representing Alberta at COP30, raising concerns about the province's commitment to climate action

As always, everyone:

Work for the extensive efforts that must be made to address .

And yet again, USA:

and remove him & those with him from government.

Give Congress no choice otherwise.

I had a very stupid sore throat like feeling. Checked and this is the reality outside. How I am still alive and breathing is beyond me.

Le persone, spesso, sono meglio di come appaiono (sui social e nei bar). , qual l'opinione dei cittadini europei sul cambiamento climatico Euronews

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18th of November 2025
426.57 ppm CO2 in the air

Chart shows current value and values for the same day 20 years back

If you can use a heat pump in a centuries-old British church, where can't you use one

Some air-source, some . Using radiant floor heating (stone floors) or existing radiators.
Some using as well.
Converting from gas or oil.
Insulating buildings is a challenge.

"British Churches Are Putting Their Faith in Heat Pumps"

Thoughtful: "Techno-Optimism Cant Save Us From Climate Change"

Keeping promises on renewables, energy efficiency and methane would avoid nearly 1C of global heating

Analysis published at Cop30 summit shows adhering to pledges offers world hope of avoiding climate breakdown

COP30 : lurgence dune politique de rduction des ingalits sociales et environnementales

Expression du ple "cologie rpublicaine" de la GRS l'avant-veille de la clture de la Belm.

With slowly wrapping up (the conference will last until the 21st) I do wonder what kind of new policies will come of it.

The fact that we can't have true "phase-out" plans for some countries because they're majority reliant on fuels for their economy is insane. IN. SANE.

Global clean energy transition is "inevitable"

Despite and other backlash.
Even using model with slower adoption of EVs!

Driven by rapid adoption in developing world.

Supply boom in cheaper renewables will seal end of fossil fuel era, says IEA

Trumps anti-green agenda could lead to 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths.

Most of the people expected to suffer live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.

Indias Grid, Not Its Generation Capacity, Is Becoming the Real Climate Bottleneck

This imbalance reveals a crucial tension. India is scaling renewable capacity faster than its transmission network, storage capacity, and balancing reserves can absorb


Crop-residue burning turning India into global methane hotspot, UN report warns

UNEP report finds India responsible for nearly one-tenth of global methane emissions, but the countrys national statement makes no mention of it

China doesnt want to lead alone on climate policies, senior adviser warns

Exclusive: A top official in Beijings Cop delegation says China is committed to clean energy but USs absence is a problem

Nochmal:

Der -Aussto steigt langsamer als erwartet, bleibt aber zu hoch fr das Reduktionsziel.

Laut -Bericht ist das Einsparpotenzial gro, besonders im . Lecksuche, moderne Deponien und vernderte knnen entscheidend helfen. Viele Manahmen wren kostengnstig umsetzbar und htten schnellen Effekt auf die , da Methan deutlich krzer in der bleibt als .

A protester holds a banner reading " 61% of Brazilians believe that oil exploration in the Amazon River basin should be prohibited" as demonstrators take part in the protest "No Oil Drilling in the Amazon" during the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP30), in Belem, Brazil, November 19, 2025

The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink Free

Even previously hopeful voices sounding the alarm.

GreenStep Launches Destination360 to Accelerate Sustainability and Climate Action in Tourism Destinations

GreenStep today announced the launch of Destination360, a comprehensive suite of services designed to help destinations & Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) measure, plan, & accelerate their sustainability efforts

How climate finance to help poor countries became a global shell game donors have counted fossil fuel projects, airports and even ice cream shops

Snow returns!

I got in at least one more bike ride before the snow rolled in this week.

I wonder if it will stick this time. Its the time of year for it to stick, but its also unseasonably warm at least, from how things used to be.

COP30 in Belm, Brazil, is seeking to be the 'implementation COP' that accelerates action on climate change.

Alongside political will and policy, universal standards on carbon emissions will be essential to meet this goal.

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol provides a unifying, credible foundation that enables real, scalable climate action

Lives lost to extreme weather events in India increased nearly 50% in 4 years

Extreme weather killed over 4,000 in nine months, crop losses surged four times amid a year of record-breaking climate events, shows new CSE-DTE report

The Center for Global Development estimates that at least one-third of the new public climate funds in 2022 actually came from existing aid budgets. In some cases, the money had been shifted to climate adaptation projects, but often development projects were relabeled as climate finance.

One week without rain and there will be a crop failure here

Der aktuelle -Bericht zeigt Fortschritte bei der Umsetzung des Global Pledge, warnt aber vor groen Lcken.

Um das Ziel einer Reduktion um 30 Prozent bis 2030 zu erreichen, mssen verfgbare Manahmen rasch und umfassend umgesetzt werden. ber 80 Prozent der mglichen Einsparungen sind kostengnstig realisierbar, vor allem im sowie in und .

What does the International Court of Justice ruling on climate change mean for and the U.S.

Likely violating international law. No direct action but indirect pressure may be brought to bear.

Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables


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This Ohio County Banned Commercial Wind and Solar. Not So Fast, Residents Said.

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Restrictions on solar and wind farms are proliferating around the country, with scores of local governments going as far as to forbid large-scale clean-energy developments. Now, residents of an Ohio county are pushing back on one such ban on renewablesa move that

Meng et al. review the ofEast subtropical broad-leaved .

Read the study for right here!


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Even a single gene, when it is reshuffled or regulated in new ways, can fuel repeated bursts of evolutionary innovation, according to a recent study of wheatear birds.

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Why dire situation of science in US will affect us all, in Europe, in China, in Africa, and elsewhere...

Trumps anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds Climate crisis The Guardian


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