Ursula von der Leyen says African countries should benefit from resource extraction — but Brussels has yet to deliver on that promise.

The Europeans took a stand but struggled to build a coalition to push for more climate action at this year’s U.N. summit.

Delegates from nearly 200 nations — not including the U.S. — showed they could make some progress. But they deferred the hardest decisions.

Nearly two weeks of talks in the Amazon ended with commitments to do more, but no firm movement on the most divisive issues — including turning away from fossil fuels.

The biggest story of the climate summit might be the brand-new EVs on the streets outside.

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The final text of a proposed deal would be a disappointment for European countries and low-lying Pacific island nations.

And its rival Australia will play a role in running the negotiations.

The bloc and its allies raged at a draft agreement presented by the Brazilian hosts on Friday morning.

The comment could undermine European countries’ push at COP30 to move away from coal, oil and gas.

How CEO Patrick Pouyanné wound up named in a war crimes complaint over a massacre at the French energy giant’s Mozambique gas plant.

More than 50,000 people from nearly 200 nations are attending the COP30 gathering in Brazil.

But Australia will hold the summit’s presidency — and therefore control the diplomacy, Climate Minister Chris Bowen told reporters.

The decision coincides with COP30 and will add fuel to claims the EU is walking back its green ambition.

A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.

India, China and other countries are challenging CBAM in climate talks.

The European Union did not join 82 countries calling for a phase-out of oil, coal and gas.

Governments across Europe, the Pacific islands, Latin America and Africa embraced the call. The United States did not.

In the Biden era, countries interested in clean energy “were motivated to buy things from the U.S.,” an African official says. But now Beijing has few rivals.

French legal complaint claims the firm paid and supplied soldiers who carried out mass killings first uncovered by POLITICO.

Officials from Brazil and the UK are hoping for a change of heart after this month’s budget.

Rows over cash payments are already holding up negotiations, as deadlines loom.

Washington should ramp up pressure on the Russian president given his unwillingness to embrace a ceasefire in Ukraine, Alexander Stubb said.

Liu Zhenmin also defended Beijing’s own climate efforts as “very ambitious.”