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11/12/2025

Our reporter Vivan Chime visited the Laikipia Integrated Housing Project to learn how locally made, recyclabe blocks are being used to create climate-smart, cost-effective homes.

Watch the video to learn more.

08/12/2025

The TFFF fund launched at COP30 aims to pay communities to protect the rainforest, but will it be enough? On French Guiana’s border with Brazil, the profits to be had from mining are far higher https://buff.ly/90rWemM

23/11/2025

COP30 is over. So what happens now? On her way home from Belém, Climate Home News’ Mariel Lozada explores the future of climate negotiations.

23/11/2025

It's a wrap for COP30! Here's our summary. 👀

23/11/2025

After the Belém package passed, countries clashed over procedure and Colombia sought a fossil-fuel reference. The COP president paused the plenary, then confirmed the decisions would stand.

Russia, Saudi Arabia and India criticised Latin American delegates, prompting Panama to defend them and call for more “childlike” vision in climate decisions.

20/11/2025

Everyone inside the COP30 venue - among them two of our reporters - have been evacuated from the COP30 venue after a fire alert was activated. Details of the source and magnitude are still unclear.

Videos from an unconfirmed source shows big flames in the Pavilion area. Climate Home News' editor Megan Rowling reports from the ground.

20/11/2025

COP31 will be held in Türkiye — but run by Australia.

After more than a year of deadlock, Australia and Türkiye have reached a compromise on who will host and who will preside over next year’s UN climate summit. Türkiye will host COP31 in Antalya, while Australia will hold the presidency — giving it responsibility for steering negotiations, preparing draft texts and shaping the summit’s outcome.

Australia’s climate minister Chris Bowen said allowing the summit to default to Bonn would have been “irresponsible for multilateralism in this challenged environment”.

COP31 will be hosted in the city of Antalya, Turkiye, but Australia will hold the presidency of the next UN climate summit

19/11/2025

As COP30 debates whether to keep energy-transition minerals in the final deal, China’s lead negotiator was caught on camera fleeing activists pushing for stronger language on the risks of mineral extraction.
Video: Pat Hinton

17/11/2025

Midway through COP30, Climate Home News hosted an event to unpack the state of the negotiations. At the panel, Juan Carlos Monterrey , Panama’s Special Representative for Climate Change, spoke about what happens when governments subsidise fossil fuel producers.