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Belém Summit gets off to relatively smooth start, but negotiating blocs have been quick to underscore key dividing lines

Brazil's President uses COP30 opening speech to argue new Climate Council within UN General Assembly is needed to 'give this challenge the political weight it deserves'

BusinessGreen takes a look at 10 key questions for the fortnight of crunch negotiations in the Amazon

Belém Summits kicks off with fresh calls from leading global businesses for governments to 'turn climate targets into real policies and action'

Greenpeace warns forest clearance in the Amazon is creating an air pollution crisis, plus Australia offers free clean energy and PepsiCo ramps up regenerative farming plans

For companies, forests are now a test of whether climate ambition can be delivered credibly at scale, writes Keith Tuffley from the Race to Belém

Belém Summit gets underway amid fresh warnings from the UN Secretary General that missing the 1.5C warming target established through the Paris Agreement would constitute a 'moral failure'

Five innovative green projects announced as winners at Rio ceremony will each receive £1m in prize money to help scale up their sustainable solutions

Major analysis details how world could correct the 'woeful political failure' that will see temperatures overshoot the 1.5C goal

More than 200 governments, banks, businesses, and communities back 'paradigm shift' to better align public and private finance in support of funding pledges made in Baku