Now, finally, COP30 is coming to the point, a global joint effort on four overarching issues for combating Global Warming. They didn’t get voted on, but it is significant that the issues were raised officially. Full proposals will be ready when COP31 begins, but the world doesn’t have to wait for that.
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COP30 COVER TEXT: The Brazilian presidency has published a first draft "global mutirão" text on the "big four" issues at COP30 – finance, 1.5C, trade & transparency
Options inc a "Belém roadmap to 1.5C", national FF roadmaps, tripling adaptation finance and more
NB this is only a draft!
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— Simon Evans (@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org) November 18, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Finance
Last year developing countries were frustrated when their developed counterparts agreed only $300bn of the promised $1.3 trillion in climate finance annually by 2035 would come directly from rich country coffers
1.5℃
The most important of the “big four” issues is the response to the NDCs. Under the Paris agreement, parties must produce NDCs – national plans on greenhouse gas emissions, also showing measures to meet them and finance needs – on a five-year cycle. This year was delivery year for the third round of NDCs: the first, presented at Paris, would have led to warming of about 3.6C; the second, at Glasgow in 2021 to about 2.8C; and the current round, still being submitted by some countries at Cop30, would cook the planet to about 2.5C.
Cut the subsidies completely. Leave all fossil fuels in the ground, and build out renewables as fast as possible. To Hell with the disinformation. Sue the liars into the ground.
Trade
Trade is likewise contentious as China and many developing countries have been angered by the EU’s green tariff. The carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) places a charge on imports of high-carbon goods such as steel, when they come from jurisdictions with weak controls on carbon.
Then there are Trump tariffs and the counter-tariffs. Don’t get me started on them.
Transparency
Transparency refers to the question of the biennial transparency reports that countries must submit to the UN under the Paris agreement, showing how they are cutting or curbing their greenhouse gas emissions, and how they are providing or using climate finance. Many countries dislike having to disclose detailed information, regarding the “measurement, reporting and verification” as a potential infringement of national sovereignty, but without such data it is impossible to judge how the world is progressing on the Paris targets.
In that vein,
Good weekend morning for gnus gatherers & thank you 2thanks for 50 powerful pips & hooray for very enthusiastic Dems to vote.
How EU salvaged a COP30 deal
The end result was not what the EU had fought for — though the bloc eked out a handful of concessions after threatening to veto the deal on Friday.
A European walkout was on the cards until just after dawn on the final morning.
The entire bloc was united in fury at the text — with everyone from the most climate-ambitious nations such as Denmark to laggards such as Poland fuming about weak language on cutting emissions and crossed red lines on finance.
To appease the EU, as well as a small group of other holdouts such as the United Kingdom and Colombia, COP30 tweaked its draft deal to affirm a previous agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels and offered to start a discussion on how to achieve that deal over the next year.
Developed countries also won changes to a proposal to triple financing for poorer countries to prepare for climate disasters
🌐🌏☀️🌊🎐🍃
We know how to achieve that deal. Cut the subsidies NOW. Leave the carbon in the ground. Make data centers build enough renewable energy FIRST, and have it running before any of their computers are allowed to be switched on. Build renewables faster than global demand grows. Let in Chinese EVs. And so on.
Global Warming Catastrophes
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain.
Pezeshkian said the pressure on water, land and infrastructure had left the government with “no option” but to act. “When we said we must move the capital, we did not even have enough budget. If we had, maybe it would have been done. The reality is that we no longer have a choice; it is an obligation,” he said in a speech in Qazvin.
He said Tehran now faces “catastrophe” as land in parts of the capital sinks by up to 30 centimeters a year and water supplies shrink. “When we say the land subsides 30 centimeters each day, this means disaster,” he said. He warned that mismanagement, construction in upstream areas and cuts to downstream water flows risk irreversible damage.
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Thrilled to share that @Avinchal from our lab presented her work on effect of heat-humidity stress on fetal development and #epigenetic regulation in the recent #GordonConference on "Epigenetic Variation: Mechanisms and Impact across Systems" #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #MaternalChildHealth
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— Climate Change and Maternal Child Health Lab (@gayenlab-iisc.bsky.social) November 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Date: November 20, 2025
Issued by: National Climate Change Warning Center
Heavy #rain threatens SE CA & SW AZ #tonight–Friday, with #flooding possible in rivers, creeks & low crossings. Wetter storms are a growing sign of warming climate. #AZwx #CAwx #FloodWatch #ClimateChange #California #Arizona
— National Climate Change Warning Center (@nccwcenter.bsky.social) November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Good News
A flagship report says the renewable energy supply boom will officially end the fossil fuel era. The International Energy Agency’s flagship report says the rise in low-carbon electricity will make the clean energy transition ‘inevitable’, despite President Trump’s calls to carry on drilling.
Dozens of churches in Britain—commonly heated by oil or gas boilers—are currently in the process of installing electric-powered heat pumps as part of eco-minded retrofit projects. Many churchgoers view the schemes as acts of Christian stewardship.
No New Nukes
No. Just no.
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AI is making spacecraft propulsion more efficient – and could even lead to nuclear-powered rockets
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/281887/
Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets into space – and that number is set…
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— uk-nb.bsky.social (@uk-nb.bsky.social) November 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Denial and Obstruction vs. Resistance and $Real Money$$™
A Different Kind of Idiocy
![Commercially motivated climate disinformation is such a severe issue that the COP30 host Brazil, the United Nations and UNESCO have now launched this Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change:\](https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/1372296/story_image/GlobalInitiativeInformationIntegrity.jpg?1732590727 "Commercially motivated climate disinformation is such a severe issue that the COP30 host Brazil, the United Nations and UNESCO have now launched this Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change:\")
