Exclusive interview with ex-US vice-president at Cop30 also reveals his hope around much-maligned climate summit
Fear of being bullied by Donald Trump may have prompted Bill Gates to row back on the climate crisis, Al Gore has speculated, as he slammed the billionaire’s new position as “silly”, and the US president for his anti-climate stance.
Trump, “the most corrupt president in American history”, was “badly damaging the US economy” by pulling away from renewable energy and promoting fossil fuels, the former US vice-president warned.
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11/12/2025 - 16:05
11/12/2025 - 10:31
Stakeholders have spent months ironing out disagreements over how to distribute water from the sprawling basin
State negotiators embroiled in an impasse over how to manage the imperiled Colorado River were unable to agree on a plan before a federally set deadline on Tuesday, thrusting deliberations deeper into uncertain territory.
Stakeholders have spent months working to iron out contentious disagreements over how to distribute water from this sprawling basin – which supplies roughly 40 million people in seven states, 5.5m acres (8.9m hectares) of farmland, dozens of tribes and parts of Mexico – as the resources grow increasingly scarce.
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11/12/2025 - 09:00
The party’s imminent move to abandon the 2050 climate goal makes the environment the loser and Labor the biggest winner
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Appearing before the media after a marathon party room meeting on Wednesday, the shadow energy minister, Dan Tehan, said the Liberals’ imminent move to dump net zero policies was built on two foundational principles.
The first was that Australia must have a stable and reliable energy grid with affordable power for households and business. The second required emissions to be reduced in a responsible and transparent way that “ensures Australia does its fair share”.
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11/12/2025 - 07:10
This live blog is now closed. You can read the full Guardian coverage of the climate talks in Brazil here
Hello comrades, this is Nina Lakhani in chilly New York City taking over the blog for the next few hours. Thanks very much to my colleague Matt Taylor in London Town who will be back in the hot seat on Friday morning.
Leading climate activists and influencers have signed a letter criticising PR firm Edelman over its role at the Cop30 summit in Brazil.
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11/12/2025 - 03:02
Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart has previously donated to Institute of Public Affairs but thinktank won’t say if she remains a donor
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A thinktank known for its rejection of the climate crisis and a conservation group that has opposed renewable energy projects refused to identify their funders during a fiery Senate inquiry into climate and energy misinformation on Wednesday.
Chair of the committee, Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson, asked Rainforest Reserves Australia’s vice-president, Steven Nowakowski, who had funded nine full-page newspaper advertisements promoting an open letter attacking a shift to renewable energy and promoting nuclear.
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11/12/2025 - 02:07
Senior Liberal sources say 28 speakers wanted to jettison the 2050 net zero emissions target entirely, 17 expressed desire to retain it in some form, while four were on the fence
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The Liberal party is poised to abandon a net zero emissions target after senior MPs advocated dumping the climate goal at a marathon meeting in Canberra on Wednesday.
The Liberal shadow ministry will gather at 9am on Thursday to resolve a position after an almost five-hour meeting in Parliament House confirmed a majority of MPs wanted Sussan Ley to follow the Nationals in walking away from the commitment.
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11/12/2025 - 02:00
Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure
A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, potentially threatening the health of more than 2 billion people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research.
A damning new report by Amnesty International, shared exclusively with the Guardian, found that more than 18,300 oil, gas and coal sites are currently distributed across 170 countries worldwide, occupying a vast area of the Earth’s surface.
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11/12/2025 - 00:00
Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling
Renewables will grow faster than any major energy source in the next decade, according to the world’s energy watchdog, making the transition away from fossil fuels “inevitable”, despite a green backlash in the US and parts of Europe.
The world is expected to build more renewable energy projects in the next five years than has been rolled out over the last 40, according to the flagship annual report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).
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11/11/2025 - 19:18
Dozens storm venue at climate conference that has encouraged NGOs and Indigenous groups to play unprecedented role in talks
There were tussles between protesters and security guards at the Cop30 climate talks late on Tuesday night, when a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people stormed the conference centre in Belém.
Several dozen men and women, some in brightly coloured feather headdress, ran through the entrance, pushing at least one door off its hinges, before striding through the metal detectors and entering the Blue Zone.
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11/11/2025 - 18:56
Gavin Newsom is most senior US politician at annual talks, heading alternate delegation in Trump’s absence
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California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, has said Donald Trump is an “invasive species” whose dismissal of the climate crisis is an “abomination”, in a fiery attack at the UN climate talks in Brazil – from which Trump and his administration have been completely absent.
Newsom is the most senior American politician at the Cop30 summit in Belém, after Trump took the unprecedented step of not sending a delegation to the talks. Newsom sought to fill the notable void of official US activity by lambasting the president for tearing up climate policies and pushing for burning more of the fossil fuels that have caused dangerous global heating.
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