Energy and tech news at UN climate negotiations in Brazil

Oxfam activists wearing oversized masks representing (L to R) European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, Argentina's President Javier Milei, US President Donald Trump and Canada's Prime Minister Marck Carney airs during their "Big Heads" protestation stunt successful Belem, Brazil, connected November 5, 2025 connected the sidelines of the COP30 UN Climate Summit.

The astir high-stakes United Nations clime alteration league successful years is taking spot this November successful Belém, Brazil. It’s the 10th day of the landmark Paris agreement, which committed astir each state connected Earth to moving unneurotic to bounds planetary warming.

They’re disconnected track, making this an important infinitesimal to amusement the satellite whether satellite leaders tin support making advancement contempt superior headwinds. One of the planet’s biggest polluters, the US, has turned its backmost connected the negotiations arsenic President Donald Trump works to stymy renewable vigor projects and beforehand fossil fuels. Generative AI is besides making the modulation to cleaner vigor much hard arsenic information centers request much energy. The Verge is tracking cardinal developments and demonstrations astatine the clime talks arsenic delegates grapple with each of these challenges.

• Indigenous protesters forced their mode into UN clime negotiations.
• Why is Bill Gates code policing connected clime change?