The world’s fossil-fuel use is still on track to peak before 2030, despite a surge in political support for coal, oil and gas, according to data from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.

According to the provisional figures, 193 countries, plus the European Union, have registered a delegation for the COP30 summit.

As COP30 began in the Brazilian city of Belém, Carbon Brief hosted the first of three webinars to exclusively answer questions submitted by holders of the Insider Pass.

Carbon Brief details what the Baku to Belém roadmap is, why it was launched and what the key points within it are.

Danish climate-sceptic commentator Bjørn Lomborg says in the Wall Street Journal that China’s clean-energy wave “is powered by coal”. [Analysis for Carbon Brief shows that the emissions from making ...

Carbon Brief’s real-time text tracker offers a helping hand by decoding agenda and keeping a searchable record of every document at COP30 ...

A gathering of world leaders kicked off in Belém, Brazil, ahead of the official opening of COP30 next week, and more climate news from the week.

Billed as the “Amazon COP”, COP30 will see the debut of Brazil’s flagship fund to “reward” tropical countries for keeping their forests intact ...

The world’s media carries extensive coverage ahead of the official opening of the COP30 UN climate talks in Belém, Brazil ...

Governments have, once again, failed to agree on a timeline for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seventh assessment cycle (AR7) ...