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January 20, 2026 6:27 PM

Environmental campaigners begin legal challenge against expansion of UK airport

A legal challenge to Britain's plan to expand Gatwick Airport, the country's second largest, began on Tuesday, as campaigners sought to block the project on climate change grounds. Britain's transport minister Heidi Alexander approved the opening of...

November 18, 2025 10:24 AM

India to host Global Big Cats Summit in 2026, calls for stronger conservation push at COP30

India will host a Global Big Cats Summit in New Delhi in 2026, Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said on Monday. Speaking at the High-Level Ministerial Segment on the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA) at the UN climate conference CoP30 in Bele...

November 18, 2025 10:03 AM

Bhupender Yadav calls for stronger global partnerships at LeadIT Roundtable during COP30 in Brazil

Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Monday called for enhanced global cooperation to accelerate low-carbon industrial transition, while addressing the LeadIT Industry Leaders’ Roundtable at the UNFCCC COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil. Spea...

November 10, 2025 1:50 PM

Indigenous leaders join COP30 climate summit as it opens with unclear outcome ahead

As COP30 opens on Monday for the more than 190 countries participating, it was unclear what exactly they would discuss during the two-week U.N. summit in Brazil’s Amazon city of Belem. Also unclear is how they’ll handle testy issues, such as a 2...

November 9, 2025 5:23 PM

What is the COP30 climate summit, and why does it matter?

Every year, the U.N. climate conference conjures hundreds of headlines on global efforts to spare the world from climate catastrophe. This year's begins on Monday in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belem. But what exactly happens at these annual su...

November 9, 2025 2:33 PM

As COP30 gathers, what’s the latest in climate science?

With the pace of climate change speeding up, extreme weather and other impacts are taking an increasing toll on populations and environments across the globe. Here are some of the developments this year in climate science: WARMER, FASTER Global tem...

November 5, 2025 6:17 PM

EU agrees weakened climate target in final-hour deal for COP30

EU climate ministers agreed a 2040 climate change target in the early hours of Wednesday after watering down the goal in last-minute negotiations, as they raced to clinch the deal before the U.N. COP30 summit in Brazil. After negotiating late into T...

October 27, 2025 8:05 PM

Athletes call for climate adaptation fightback ahead of COP30

Climate change is one of the toughest opponents facing any athlete, warns Brazilian soccer player Tamires Dias, one of around 40 elite sportsmen and women involved in the launch of a new global campaign that will feature at next month's COP30 summit ...

June 29, 2025 9:50 AM

EU plans to add carbon credits to new climate goal, document shows

The European Commission is set to propose counting carbon credits bought from other countries towards the European Union's 2040 climate target, a Commission document seen by Reuters showed. The Commission is due to propose a legally binding EU clima...

May 28, 2025 1:08 PM

EU almost on track to reach 2030 climate goal

The European Union is nearly on track to reach its main climate target for this decade, with countries' existing CO2-cutting plans set to bring the bloc within one percentage point of the goal, the European Commission said on Wednesday. The EU is on...