climate crisis

Campaigners Disrupt Oil Executive Awards Dinner In London

December 4, 2025 The Canary. Resist! Big Oil, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, London

To highlight damage caused by the oil and gas industry, campaigners from Fossil Free London interrupted the World Energy Council Assembly’s dinner at the Hilton in Mayfair on 3 December. Oil and gas executives had gathered to present and receive industry “achievement awards”. Award nominees and attendees included Shell, BP, and Ithaca Energy. Campaigners chanted “no awards for climate criminals”, as they were dragged out of the building by security. The protest comes after devastating flooding has killed at least 1,250 people across much of southeast Asia in recent days.

Navigating Collapse Together: Toward Regenerative Public Life

December 4, 2025 Nicole Negowetti, Resilience. Strategize! climate crisis, Ecological Collapse, Local Economy, Transformation

How does change actually happen? This question has followed me across every chapter of my life, from political science and philosophy studies, to graduate work in peacebuilding, into law and food policy, and now into conversations about the polycrisis and metacrisis. Across these settings, I have worked at many scales, always searching for where transformation truly takes root. In the first essay in this series, I explored how food and place reveal the limits of our political binaries. In the second, I examined resistance as an expression of kinship rather than opposition.

The Climate Briefing Britain Can’t Ignore

December 1, 2025 Monica Piccinini, The Canary. Organize! climate crisis, Climate Science, collapse, United Kingdom (UK)

On 27 November, the National Emergency Briefing on Climate & Nature took place at Central Hall Westminster, bringing together leading experts from climate science, national security, energy, food systems, health, and the economy. Their mission was to deliver a stark, science-led wake up call to politicians, business leaders, and the media of the accelerating threats facing the UK. The message left the room in no doubt: Britain isn’t ready for what’s coming. Naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham opened the event with a stark warning: This beautiful little blue planet is where we will either learn to live in harmony with the environment or we will destroy ourselves and much of other life, too.

Lessons For Climate Advocates From Bill Gates ‘Climate Hack’

November 28, 2025 Liam Kavanagh, DeSmog. Strategize! Bill Gates, Brazil, climate crisis, COP30

Many were frustrated, justifiably, by Bill Gates’ ability to steal headlines ahead of this year’s just-concluded round of U.N. climate talks, COP30. Gates did so by telling the climate community, on his blog, what he believes is a ‘hard truth’: that we are ‘diverting resources from the most effective things that should be done to to improve life in a warming world,’ notably fighting poverty and disease, including by boosting economic growth. By focusing on limiting the rise in average global temperatures as the sole metric of success, climate advocates are missing opportunities to ‘prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries.’

Theme From The Bottom: Post COP30 Reflections

November 26, 2025 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! climate crisis, COP30, Decolonization, Indigenous Peoples, People's Summit, White Supremacy

The first Conference of the Parties (COP) summit I attended was back in 2015, COP 21, which took place in Paris, France. At this point in my climate and environmental justice journey I was wide-eyed and perhaps even a bit naive as I believed that nation states, international bodies like the United Nations, and so-called Civil Society Organizations contained the requisite mettle and principles to take on the crisis of climate change at scale while and the root causes that maintain and exacerbate it - white “supremacy” ideology, patriarchy, and colonization - contemporaneously.

COP30 Backpedals On Climate Action

November 23, 2025 Bob Berwyn, Scheer Post. Educate! Brazil, climate crisis, COP30, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming

Belem, Brazil—After negotiators at COP30 retreated from meaningful climate action by failing to specifically mention the need to stop using fossil fuels in the final conference documents published Saturday, the disappointment inside the COP30 conference center was as pervasive as the diesel fumes from the generators outside the tent. This year’s United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was billed as the “COP of Truth” by host country Brazil, but it could go down in history “as the deadliest talk show ever,” said Harjeet Singh, founding director of the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation in India and strategic advisor to the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.

COP30 Isn’t A Failure, It’s A Farce

November 22, 2025 Peter Gelderloos, In These Times. Strategize! Brazil, climate crisis, COP30, Indigenous Peoples

Belem, Brazil — As the COP30 climate summit comes to a close here in Belém, in the Brazilian state of Pará, conference organizers have little to show after two weeks of highly publicized talks. This is bad for everyone. The United Nations Climate Change Conference desperately needed to restore its reputation. After all, last year’s COP29 took place in Azerbaijan, where fossil fuels make up 90% of the exports and where the government was being accused of carrying out genocide in the months leading up to the conference. The previous year, the COP28 was held in Dubai, capital of another petrostate.

Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing For Biofuels

November 21, 2025 Clare Carlile and Maximiliano Manzoni, DeSmog. Educate! Big Ag, climate crisis, COP30, Food and Agriculture

With the clock running down at the COP30 climate talks, the Brazilian hosts are working hand-in-hand with industry groups to secure backing for biofuels in the final text – despite fears that scaling production will drive deforestation and violate Indigenous rights. National delegations are at loggerheads over a proposal to include language backing the use of “transitional fuels” – which could be read as an open door for biofuels – in a draft Just Transition Work Plan to guide a fair and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.

A Xipai Journalist On Attending COP30

November 21, 2025 Wajã Xipai, The Guardian. Educate! climate crisis, COP30, Environment, Indigenous culture

I feel as if I’ve been swallowed. And in the creature’s stomach, I walk with the sensation of being drowned. My nose hurts, with the same pain we feel when we are struggling to breathe. That’s my perception of the blue zone of Cop30, the official area for the negotiations. The architecture makes me think of the stomach of an animal. My eyes hurt, seeing so many people coming and going through the main corridor. This is the scene of a makeshift forest. On the walls are large paintings of a jaguar, a monkey, an anteater and a lizard. In the middle of the corridor are plants that resemble açaí palm trees, and below them, small shrubs. The place of nature within the blue zone is ornamental.

How The United Nations Reduces Its Legitimacy More Than Global Emissions

November 20, 2025 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Brazil, climate crisis, COP30, Ecocide, Enviornmental Justice, United Nations (UN), Wars and Militarism

Belem, Brazil - The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP) held this year in Belem, Brazil - a nation where 56% of the population identifies as Black or brown, global Black/Afro Descendant movements believed there could have been opportunities to center and prioritize the specific and nuanced ways the climate crisis impacts their communities. A study conducted by Brazilian based, Geledés - the Black Women’s Institute and the Center for Applied Research in Law and Racial Justice at the Fundacao Getulia Vargas School of Law indicates, “The specificity of the Afro-descendant experience in the Americas lies at the intersection of structural racism, colonial legacies, and erasure attempts through ideologies of miscegenation and racial democracy.”

More Than 300 Lobbyists For Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30

November 18, 2025 Rachel Sherrington and Nina Lakhani, DeSmog. Educate! Big Ag, Brazil, Carbon emissions, climate crisis, COP30, pollution

More than 300 lobbyists for food and farming organisations have participated at this year’s UN climate talks, known as COP30, taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where agribusiness is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found. The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides is up 14 percent over last year’s summit in Baku — and is larger than the delegation of the world’s 10th largest economy, Canada, which brought 220 delegates to COP30 in Belém, according to the joint investigation between DeSmog and the Guardian.

The Overshoot Presidency And The State Of Climate Politics

November 17, 2025 Alberto Toscano, In These Times. Strategize! climate crisis, Environment, False Solutions, Fossil Fuel, Technology

Ahead of this November’s Cop30 climate summit, to be held in Belém, Brazil — the gateway to the Amazon River — United Nations Secretary General António Guterres delivered a stark statement: “Let’s recognize our failure. The truth is that we have failed to avoid an overshooting above 1.5 degrees [Celsius] in the next few years. And that going above 1.5 degrees has devastating consequences.” Guterres’s remarks came just as Hurricane Melissa was making landfall in Jamaica as one of the most powerful Atlantic basin storms in recorded history. And it came after a year of other grim milestones: the devastating wildfires that struck Los Angeles in January and Canada in May, lethal flash floods from Argentina to Texas and heatwaves in India and Pakistan that brought temperatures up to 49 degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit), leading to crop failures.

Rich Countries At COP30 Are Robbing The Global South

November 16, 2025 David Goeßmann, Truthout. Educate! climate crisis, Climate finance, COP30, Global South

UN climate conferences are primarily announcement summits. For 30 years, industrialized countries, which are primarily responsible for the climate crisis, have been promising that they will reduce greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the climate science, promote the energy transition, and combat the effects of climate change. Additional promises have also been made regarding climate financing at the UN Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summits in Copenhagen (2009) and Paris (2015). At COP30 in Brazil, governments have once again declared their intention to support developing countries with climate funding, repeating their promise at the COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, to increase climate financing to $300 billion annually from 2035. But promises are not yet actions.

Antarctica’s Red Flag Warning

November 16, 2025 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! Antarctica, climate crisis, Environment, Sea level rise

Antarctica has moved to “the front of the line” as a global warming threat that’s already well beyond expectations, and it’s happening fast. Based upon statements by polar scientists over the past 18 months, it warrants a Red Flag Warning, meaning higher than expected risks of catastrophic meltdown within current lifetimes. This meets criteria for the latest international concern surrounding climate change: “When is enough, enough” for world leaders to take to heart the risks of ecosystem failures and take extraordinary, drastic, unprecedented measures in unison to hopefully head off the onset of a maniacal worldwide climate system.

Tehran Contemplates ‘Evacuation’ As Many Cities Face Water Dilemmas

November 16, 2025 Kurt Cobb, Resilience. Educate! climate crisis, Climate Migration, Drought, Environment, Iran, Water

I’ve put the word “evacuation” in the title of this piece in quotes because it’s not clear where Tehran’s 9.8 million people or some significant number of them would evacuate to as water supplies run dangerously low. Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian has been criticized for saying out loud how bad the situation is: “If it does not rain in Tehran by December, we should ration water; if it still does not rain, we must empty Tehran.” Doubtless Iranian water authorities will force severe restrictions on Tehran’s residents if the rains—which have been 82 percent below the long term averages for the past year—do not come.

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