COP30_ NOV 10-NOV21/2025 Belém, Brazil

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Shock COP Dirty Secret: At Least Half the Balsa Wood in Wind Turbine Blades is Illegally Logged in Amazonian Rainforests
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/11/shock-cop-dirty-secret-at-least-half-the-balsa-wood-in-wind-turbine-blades-is-illegally-logged-in-amazonian-rainforests/

COP30: President Lula Calls for an End to Climate Denialism
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/11/cop30-president-lula-calls-for-an-end-to-climate-denialism/

COP30 In Belém Exposes Climate Elites’ Rank Hypocrisy
https://climatechangedispatch.com/cop30-belem-climate-hypocrisy/

Absurdity Reigns At COP30 As Leaders Gaslight On Climate And Energy
https://climatechangedispatch.com/cop30-climate-gaslighting-energy-hypocrisy/

Poll Shows Voters Skeptical Of COP30 Climate Talks In Brazil
https://climatechangedispatch.com/us-adults-no-confidence-cop30-climate-poll/

German Energy Professor: COP 30 Is A Failure…”Only Europe Remains Committed”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/12/german-energy-professor-cop-30-is-a-failureonly-europe-remains-committed/

Claim: COP30 “Vibe Shift” Wrecking Climate Progress
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/13/claim-cop30-vibe-shift-wrecking-climate-progress/

At COP30, UN Declares War On Free Speech To Silence Climate Dissent
https://climatechangedispatch.com/cop30-orwellian-information-integrity-climate-dissent/

White House Shreds Newsom Over ‘Disrespect’ Remark At COP30 Climate Summit
https://climatechangedispatch.com/white-house-blasts-newsom-cop30-climate-summit/

COP30 Dispute Erupts over the Legal Definition of a Woman
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/13/cop30-dispute-erupts-over-the-legal-definition-of-a-woman/

Ten Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Climatism is Crumbling
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/14/ten-years-after-the-paris-climate-agreement-climatism-is-crumbling/

Did Bill Gates Really Drop a Bomb on Climate Catastrophism?

Un Official Orders Brazil To Get It Together Over Absolute Climate Fest Dumpster Fire

At COP30, Countries Sign First-ever Declaration to Control info on Climate

Live at 1pm ET : Worst COP Ever? – The Climate Realism Show #182

Absurdity Reigns At COP30 As Leaders Gaslight On Climate And Energy

German Energy Professor: COP 30 Is A Failure…”Only Europe Remains Committed”

Claim: COP30 “Vibe Shift” Wrecking Climate Progress

At COP30, UN Declares War On Free Speech To Silence Climate Dissent

White House Shreds Newsom Over ‘Disrespect’ Remark At COP30 Climate Summit

COP30 Dispute Erupts over the Legal Definition of a Woman

Ten Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Climatism is Crumbling

Climate Alarmist Backlash And COP30 Declaration Show Cancel Culture Isn’t Over

Did a Battery Fire Just Kill the COP30 Climate Conference?

Freedom Melts Faster Than Glaciers: COP30’s Declaration on ‘Information Integrity

more articles will be added….

by D. Wojick, Nov 11, 2025 in WUWT

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Climate alarmism has been seriously stalled by a combination of President Trump and unfavorable economic conditions. So, the diplomats laboring at COP30 are working on long-term issues, hoping for better “weather,” as it were. They are still very busy negotiating the future.

Major policy initiatives often take a decade or more, so while subdued, the work has not slowed down. Rumors of the death of alarmism are greatly exaggerated. The greens are just biding their time.

Most of the issues are about money, of course, although the call for increased 2030 emission reduction targets is also on the table. The money issues mostly have to do with long-term objectives and mechanisms. This includes various global taxes such as on shipping emissions and airfare.

An unavoidable, immediate money issue is raising the supposed $100 billion annual payment by “developed” countries to “developing” countries. (This distinction between donor and recipient countries is based on two lists from 1992 that are long out of date.)

But even here, what was once talk of trillions has moderated to a mere hundreds of billions in the short term. Instead, they are supposed to develop a roadmap to get to $1.3 trillion a year some time from now.

On the new emission targets, there has been a distinct lack of ambition. Many developing countries have yet to submit theirs. One reason may be that these grand plans are all written as being contingent on funding from the “developed” countries. Raising these numbers could be a bad move politically.

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by Editorial Board, Oct 29, 2025 in ClimateChangeDispatch 

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Will The 30th U.N. Climate Conference Be The Last?

The United Nations’ 30th Conference of the Parties, known as COP30, will be held next month in Belem, Brazil. It will be a nearly two-week festival of intellectual depravity, in which fiery sermons are preached, nags are given an undeserved forum, backs are slapped, glasses clinked, and participants tell each other and the world how important they are. [some emphasis, links added]

We hope that it’s an endangered species falling hard toward extinction.

While the crisis-mongers are supping luxuriously and congratulating themselves for saving a world that’s in no danger from human fossil-fuel exhaust, their crusade is losing momentum.

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Polls are showing that fewer Americans believe it’s a “very serious” or serious problem. When issues are ranked by the public, climate is far behind others, such as healthcare and the economy.

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by A. Streb, Oct 28, 2025 in ClimateChangeDispatch 

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Countries are twiddling their thumbs over climate goals.

ver 100 countries have missed the deadline to tighten their climate targets ahead of November’s United Nations conference as President Donald Trump has rolled back some U.S. climate policies. [emphasis, links added]

Though the Paris Climate Agreement requires countries to set more stringent climate targets, many have yet to submit updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) plans as COP30 inches closer.

The climate talks will be held in Belém, Brazil, from Nov. 6 to Nov. 21, 2025, but the Trump administration has yet to select a delegation to attend as it continues to enact majorderegulatory moves in the energy space.

“Most nations realize the cost of cutting carbon dioxide is painful and unnecessary. It is no surprise that nation after nation [is] trying to skirt their prior greenwashing pledges,” James Taylor, president of The Heartland Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Most countries missed the Feb. 10 deadline, though the U.N. reportedly was accepting of this as long as it meant they were working on their climate goals, according to The Associated Press.

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Morano previously told the DCNF that Democrats and Europeans seem to be retreating from aggressive climate policies as the American “public is not tolerating virtue signaling about saving the planet anymore.”

Several corporate media outlets and some Democrats have recently shifted away from climate policy and are instead focusing their message on rising electricity prices and reliability.

by D. Wojick, Oct 27, 2025 in WUWT

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The mainstream press run-up to COP 30 is the most subdued I have ever seen, and I have seen them all. No grand global plans or calls for astronomical sums of cash. Likely a Trump effect — but as a scientist with no hard evidence, I will not claim that, just point out the possibility).

The big thing missing is easy to see. This is the strident call for trillions of dollars in “financial flows” from developed to developing countries via various UN funds.

If payments are mentioned at all, they now tend to be in hundreds of billions a year, not trillions. Mind you, a few hundred billion is still ridiculous, but it is way less than trillions, definitely a new low profile.

President Trump has done several big things to contribute to this lack of financial grandeur. He is pulling America out of the Paris Accord, effective this January. He denounced climate alarmism as a colossal scam to the UN General Assembly, in their face as it were.

On the financial side, he has terminated the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which was throwing billions of dollars a year around the world in climate money. Many other US agencies have also terminated climate spending.

Thus, it is perfectly clear that no climate change “financial flows” will be coming from America for at least the next few years. The other developed countries, some of which are still rabid on climate, are in no position to make up for the loss of America.

Moreover, and this may be another reason for the somber COP, these other developed countries are experiencing serious economic problems. Ironically, some of these are energy cost crunches brought on by ill-conceived climate policies. This is certainly true for the EU and UK.

Mind you, the monster-dollar “financial flows” rhetoric was mostly motivational. It had little to do with the actual work program of the COP, so that will still proceed, albeit cautiously, when it comes to costly national commitments.

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by D. Blackmon, Oct 0, 2025 in ClimateChangeDispatch 

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Sky-high costs, private jets, and rainforest destruction make a mockery of the very climate agenda activists claim to champion.

 

In case you’ve missed it amid the Trump White House’s decision to ban U.S. participation, this year’s U.N.-sponsored COP30 conference is being hosted by Belem, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Pará. [emphasis, links added]

Suffice it to say that, as is always the case with these annual gatherings of globalist elites, preparations for this year’s event have been filled with a series of pitfalls, emergencies, and the usual stories of rank hypocrisy.

A great example came on Tuesday, when Bloomberg ran a story with the alarming headline, “Nations Rethink Plans for Brazil Climate Summit as Costs Soar.” Sounds scary, doesn’t it? Yeah, that’s probably the point.

It turns out that prices for hotel rooms and other accommodations are soaring (unexpectedly!) in advance of the conference, which should actually surprise no one, given that these events are regularly attended by tens of thousands of conferees armed with virtually unlimited expense accounts.

The profit motive remains alive and well in the midst of the Amazon jungle despite the best efforts of Brazil’s socialist government to kill it off. Go figure.

Bloomberg’s writers first imply that the high costs of attendance are falling mainly on the shoulders of developing nations, saying, “representatives of developing and at-risk countries say they’re considering scaling back their presence at this year’s event, which would reduce their visibility and negotiating power.”

Countries must have a big delegation present to ensure they get their entitled slices of every one of the myriad climate alarm initiatives, schemes, and scams that will be rolled out at this year’s conference, you know.

The piece singles out Tanzania’s Richard Muyungi, who chairs the African Group of Negotiators, as claiming that “African national delegations typically range from about 60 to 100 people.”

After all, it’s a two-week event, so countries feel the need to sub in backups for exhausted participants like an NFL defensive coordinator rotates tackles and linebackers.

Later in the story, though, Bloomberg admits that some developed countries are also scaling back their planned delegations from previous years.

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