Climate

This year's United Nations climate talks (also known as COP30, or the UN climate summit) took place from 10 to 22 November 2025 in Belém, Brazil. The talks come at a crucial time for climate action. The choices governments make now will shape our collective future for generations. 

Friends of the Earth respond to the government's 2025 budget, with concerns around cuts to energy-efficiency funding, rises in fuel duty and the absence of taxes for the biggest polluters.

Talks conclude after rich countries "had to be dragged to the table kicking and screaming"

Momentous that a mechanism for a fair and just transition has made it into the draft text

Environmental campaigners are taking to the streets in the UK and in Brazil as part of a global mobilisation on Saturday 15 November

Friends of the Earth is calling on the UK government to play an important role in guiding this year’s UN climate talks to success.

Time to make polluters pay - not those who have done least to cause the crisis

Kemi Badenoch’s plan to replace the Climate Change Act is anti-science, anti-business and turns its back on those at the sharp end of climate breakdown now and future generations, says Friends of the Earth.

The Secretary of State is set to unveil new plans to 'Send the Frackers Packing'

Recent polling shows the practice remains deeply unpopular with the public