CANSA in the News

COP30: Brazil Summit Ends in Ambiguity as Leaders Dodge Hard Choices on Fossil Fuel and Finance
www.moneycontrol.com | Nov 24, 2025

When the Amazon climate summit ended in Belém, delegates carried home ambiguity, something that could be seen as worse than outright failure. After two weeks of talks in the gateway city to the world’s largest rainforest, nearly 200 countries produced a Belém Political Package that looked substantive on paper, but was a collection of frameworks that postponed hard questions rather than answer them

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India wants COP30 to focus on climate adaptation, but dries up own fund
www.aljazeera.com | Nov 20, 2025

Indian-administered Kashmir – On the night of September 2, Shabir Ahmad’s home was swallowed by mud and swept into the river after relentless rains triggered a landslide in Sarh village in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Reasi district.

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Tackling climate disinformation is on the COP30 agenda
www.india.mongabay.com | Nov 13, 2025

COP30 will be the COP of truth,” declared Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the opening of the ongoing UN climate conference, setting a critical tone for the annual meeting where upholding facts has emerged as a pillar of climate action. A significant step in this direction took place on November 12 at COP30 with the launch of a Declaration on Information Integrity aimed at global cooperation for combating climate misinformation.

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COP30: Call for loss & damage funding requests on Day 1 ray of hope for India’s highly vulnerable areas
www.downtoearth.org.in | Nov 11, 2025

On the opening day of the 30th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) at Belem, Brazil, the ‘Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage’ (FRLD) took a historical step forward by launching its first call for funding requests under the Barbados Implementation Modalities (BIM).

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Climate Treks In India: Still Under a Veil
www.theshillongtimes.com | Oct 30, 2025

According to the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, the world will see a staggering 25 million to 1 billion ‘Environmental Displaced Persons’ in the coming future. This will not only influence transnational relations and geopolitical relations between countries but will also foment fresh problems and conflicts while dealing with this incipient trend.

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What is non-economic loss and damage? [Explainer]
www.india.mongabay.com | Oct 20, 2025

From cloudbursts impacting important heritage structures, to children losing school days due to cyclones; from intense heat waves leading to heat strokes and other illnesses, to sea level rise contributing to out migration; from early-snow melt inducing changes in alpine plants, to unseasonal weather impacting traditional knowledge systems in agriculture

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As climate change upturns lives in Odisha, women grapple with trauma and anxiety
www.scroll.in | Oct 1, 2025

Rows of nondescript houses, some left half-built and some still under construction, are neatly spread out in Bagapatia in Odisha’s Kendrapara district. Since 2018, the village has been home to 571 families that were moved here as the Bay of Bengal began to inundate their old homes in Satabhaya village. This makes Bagapatia India’s first rehabilitation settlement for people displaced by coastal erosion.

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‘Real world moving faster than politics’: Experts reject Trump’s dismissal of climate change
www.deccanherald.com | Sep 24, 2025

Trump’s UNGA speech doubled down on his rejection of climate science, attacked the United Nations and criticised European green policies as damaging to growth.

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‘Real world moving faster than politics’ Experts reject Trump’s dismissal of climate change
www.theweek.in | Sep 24, 2025

New Delhi, Sep 24 (PTI) US President Donald Trump on Tuesday called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”, a dismissal that experts say must not shake countries’ resolve to fight the crisis, since action is overtaking political posturing in the real

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‘Net Zero cannot be our hero’: Why climate activists question Net Zero 2050-70 carbon emissions goal and whether ‘real zero’ is possible as climate change continues to wreck havoc
www.indianexpress.com | Sep 22, 2025

Net zero may sound like jargon, but at the end of the day, it’s about your child’s lungs, your parents’ heart health, and your own ability to breathe freely

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