LoginIt’s official: Turkey will be boss of COP31 climate talks
22 November 2025 at 08:04
And its rival Australia will play a role in running the negotiations.
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EU threatens to block ‘weak’ COP30 deal
22 November 2025 at 00:14
The bloc and its allies raged at a draft agreement presented by the Brazilian hosts on Friday morning.
Yesterday — 21 November 2025Politico | Energy & Environment
Fire disrupts climate talks — and souvenir hunters
21 November 2025 at 22:00
The blaze closed an area of the venue that hosted pavilions set up by countries to showcase their climate actions. China’s knicknacks were especially popular.
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- Trump administration proposes opening waters off California and Florida to oil drilling
Trump administration proposes opening waters off California and Florida to oil drilling
21 November 2025 at 03:45
The proposed plan is a jab at California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, but could face bipartisan pushback for opening acres off Florida's Gulf Coast.
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- Trump administration proposes opening waters off California and Florida to oil drilling
Trump administration proposes opening waters off California and Florida to oil drilling
21 November 2025 at 03:36
The proposed five-year schedule for offshore oil and gas leasing released Thursday represents the most expansive plan in decades.
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- Fire forces evacuation from climate summit as talks reach critical stage
Fire forces evacuation from climate summit as talks reach critical stage
21 November 2025 at 01:56
More than 50,000 people from nearly 200 nations are attending the COP30 gathering in Brazil.
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Meet the Republicans who killed solar subsidies — after using them
20 November 2025 at 23:00
POLITICO’s E&E News examined satellite imagery of more than 100 homes owned by Republican lawmakers to see if they have solar panels. Seven had rooftop arrays.
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Lula at climate summit: US might not be gone for good
20 November 2025 at 22:59
Brazil's leader said he hopes “one day to convince the president of the United States that the climate crisis is serious” — and to join a phase-out of fossil fuels.
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Turkey to host 2026 climate summit, in defeat for Australia
20 November 2025 at 06:37
But Australia will hold the summit's presidency — and therefore control the diplomacy, Climate Minister Chris Bowen told reporters.
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Disaster-battered nations seek $120B in adaptation cash
20 November 2025 at 03:58
The move at COP30 comes as global climate pollution continues to rise, increasing damage in poorer countries.
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- Double down on push to abandon fossil fuels, 82 countries urge at climate summit
Double down on push to abandon fossil fuels, 82 countries urge at climate summit
19 November 2025 at 04:07
Governments across Europe, the Pacific islands, Latin America and Africa embraced the call. The United States did not.
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Beijing in Brazil: China makes bank as Trump spurns climate talks
18 November 2025 at 23:00
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.
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FEMA to Texas? Disaster agency mulls move to Lone Star State
18 November 2025 at 06:11
The state's top emergency official also is under discussion to lead FEMA. The agency's acting chief resigned Monday after a six-month stint.
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- ‘Additional promises mean nothing’: The awkward flaw in the world’s climate talks
‘Additional promises mean nothing’: The awkward flaw in the world’s climate talks
17 November 2025 at 03:00
World leaders have vowed to fight rising temperatures for years. Many of those pledges fade when the summits end.
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- Protests return to climate summit with calls for Indigenous rights (and a dash of Trump mockery)
Protests return to climate summit with calls for Indigenous rights (and a dash of Trump mockery)
16 November 2025 at 04:52
Saturday’s march through the streets of Belém, Brazil, was a contrast to the muzzling of dissent at past years’ U.N. summits.
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- Whitehouse waves climate banner at Brazil summit — no thanks to Trump, he says
Whitehouse waves climate banner at Brazil summit — no thanks to Trump, he says
15 November 2025 at 05:38
The lone U.S. government representative at the United Nations climate gathering says the State Department made it harder for members of Congress to attend.
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- Sheldon Whitehouse heading to Brazil as sole US federal official at COP30
Sheldon Whitehouse heading to Brazil as sole US federal official at COP30
14 November 2025 at 09:54
The Rhode Island Democrat will participate in events on offshore wind, shipping and greenhouse gas emissions before delivering a keynote speech at a roundtable with elected officials from other nations.
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- Enviro group that helped lead Keystone Pipeline opposition suspends US operations
Enviro group that helped lead Keystone Pipeline opposition suspends US operations
14 November 2025 at 06:03
The group will keep three U.S. positions open in hopes of reviving operations in the future.
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Protesters and UN security clash at climate summit in Brazil
12 November 2025 at 07:30
The demonstrators waved yellow flags protesting oil drilling in the Amazon.
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- Trump says he brought down gas prices. The reality is more complicated.
Trump says he brought down gas prices. The reality is more complicated.
8 November 2025 at 07:10
Americans are paying less at the pump than they were a year ago, but industry analysts are mixed on how much credit President Donald Trump deserves.
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- ‘Trump is against humankind’: World leaders at climate summit take swipes at absent president
‘Trump is against humankind’: World leaders at climate summit take swipes at absent president
7 November 2025 at 02:35
Some of Thursday's speeches reflected anger and dismay at U.S. policies but could not hide the ambivalence that many countries feel about this year's climate talks.
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Trump’s fossil fuel crusade confronts the climate faithful
6 November 2025 at 21:00
Pulling out of the Paris climate agreement was not enough, an ex-aide to the U.S. president says on the eve of a summit in Brazil: "You have to potentially destroy it."
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Democrats show early signs of winning energy messaging war
6 November 2025 at 07:42
Democrats won gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, where candidates made affordability concerns and skyrocketing electricity bills central to their campaigns.
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- The US led the world to reach a huge climate deal. Then, it switched sides.
The US led the world to reach a huge climate deal. Then, it switched sides.
6 November 2025 at 00:00
Ten years after nations adopted the Paris Agreement, its objectives are in jeopardy amid rising climate pollution and a political backlash against clean energy.
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UN: Nations well off-track of Paris climate agreement goals
4 November 2025 at 22:40
U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement would erase another 0.1 C of progress.
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- Slow rollout throttled Biden’s big clean energy ambitions, former staffers say
Slow rollout throttled Biden’s big clean energy ambitions, former staffers say
4 November 2025 at 18:00
An “executive branch machinery that defaulted to caution, process, and reactive strategies” undercut the ex-president’s massive energy and infrastructure programs, a report by his former staffers details.
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The water war Trump hasn’t blown up
3 November 2025 at 00:00
The fight over the Colorado River’s dwindling resources is made for MAGA — but so far the Trump administration has been playing it straight.
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- White House removes Atlantic from oil lease consideration after political backlash
White House removes Atlantic from oil lease consideration after political backlash
1 November 2025 at 03:28
The Trump administration could be days away from proposing a five-year drilling plan that would open new waters off the Pacific and eastern Gulf coasts to oil and gas rigs.
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NOAA hurricane hunter crews, researchers flying without pay
29 October 2025 at 07:30
The planes have been flying into Hurricane Melissa as part of monitoring the monster storm.
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