Today marks the start of one of the most anticipated climate gatherings of the year: COP30 in the city of Belém, in Brazil’s Amazon region. The host locale, the world’s largest tropical rainforest, underscores the urgency of this conference. Amazon Hosts COP30: Time for Real Climate Action Against the backdrop of the forest, the summit convenes over 100 nations to accelerate climate action. During this same week, new data from MapBiomas revealed that the Amazon recorded a t

A meeting of the International Maritime Organization scheduled for October 2025 has been postponed, an unexpected move that reveals deep fractures in the global shipping sector’s climate governance. IMO Delay Exposes Deep Climate Fault Lines According to the article published by Splash247 , this postponement is symptomatic of wider tensions: between developed and developing nations, between shipping’s commercial interests and climate imperatives, and between regulating emissi

2025 is shaping up to be a turning point for the decarbonisation of shipping. Beyond regulatory milestones like the IMO Net-Zero...