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Climate ActionNovember 10, 2025

Sustainable Switch: COP30 starts as Typhoon Kalmaegi kills hundreds

Excerpt from reuters.com The storm that devastated the country's central regions regained strength as it headed towards Vietnam. In Vietnam's Gia Lai province, authorities expected to have evacuated some 350,000 people by the middle of the day as they warned of heavy rains and damaging winds that could cause flooding in low-lying areas and disrupt agricultural activity. Even as Typhoon Kalmaegi, locally named Tino, left the Philippine monitoring zone, weather forecasters were tracking a brewing storm east of Mindanao that could strengthen into a typhoon, raising concerns for potential impact early next week. Scientists say storms are intensifying faster and more frequently as a result of warming ocean waters driven by greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate ActionNovember 10, 2025

Taiwan’s ‘inclusive, forward-looking’ policies set to confront climate change, says official

Photo credit: Photo via Official Source / AA.com.tr Excerpt from aa.com.tr Taiwan’s “comprehensive, inclusive, and forward-looking” commitment to long-term policies is aimed at confronting the challenge of climate change, a top official said Thursday. Peng Chi-ming, the environment minister, said in a statement to Anadolu that the administration has presented a “clear and transparent” nationally determined contribution (NDC) for 2035, setting explicit goals for a low-carbon transition. The statement came on the eve of the UN COP30 climate change summit set for Nov. 10-21 in Brazil. “Taiwan is not immune to growing challenge of climate change,” said Peng, mentioning how this summer southern and eastern parts of the island were struck by typhoons and torrential rainfall, causing severe flooding and damage. This underscores the “profound effect of extreme climate on regional development and public safety,” he said. He said Taiwan is “integrating resources and expanding networks for climate adaptation” as well as “disclosing its progress and demonstrating its commitment to meeting its responsibilities as concerns the global effort to reduce emissions.”

Climate ActionNovember 10, 2025

Climate finance must reach Indigenous communities at COP30 & beyond (commentary)

Excerpt from news.mongabay.com As the COP30 climate summit in the Amazon draws near, pressure is mounting to get funding directly into the hands of Indigenous and local community organizations who are the frontline defenders of the world’s rainforests. Donors are waking up to the powerful truth that funding Indigenous and local communities is one of the highest-impact investments we can make for forest protection and climate action. This momentum is encouraging. Still, the numbers tell a stark story. Indigenous and local communities protect 36% of the world’s intact tropical forests, yet receive less than 1% of international climate finance. This contradiction threatens global climate goals and leaves the most effective forest guardians without the resources they need. Behind this funding gap lie systemic barriers: rigid eligibility rules, donor requirements designed for large institutions, and administrative hurdles that shut out grassroots organizations. For decades, many intermediary organizations tried to bridge these gaps. Still, in practice, some evolved into permanent gatekeepers, unintentionally absorbing resources that could have more directly supported the organizations and communities they aimed to serve.

Climate ActionNovember 10, 2025

Pacific calls for urgent climate action as latest UN report warns world is off track

Excerpt from islandsbusiness.com BELÉM, 4 November 2025 – The latest UN Environment Programme Emissions Gap Report 2025 delivers yet another stark warning – the world is still far off track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, with current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) leading us towards a devastating 2.3–2.5°C pathway of warming. For the Pacific, where the impacts of the climate crisis are already a lived reality, this failure to act with urgency is nothing short of an injustice. This latest report reaffirms what our communities have been saying for years – that while the science grows clearer, global action remains far too slow. The findings highlight the widening gap between promises made and the real action needed to keep 1.5°C alive.

Climate ActionNovember 10, 2025

In the aftermath of Melissa, Caribbean faces climate chaos as COP30 nears

Excerpt from guardian.co.tt The United Nations’ most important climate change conference, COP30, will start this week in Belem, Brazil. As world leaders and negotiators discuss the way forward in the climate fight, Jamaicans, Cubans, Haitians and Bahamians will continue to pick up the pieces from what was left behind by Hurricane Melissa. The closeness of the hurricane’s rampage through the Caribbean to COP30 might lead you to believe it could shake the conscience of negotiators and inspire them to ramp up ambitions at the two-week conference. Caricom Climate Envoy Dr James Fletcher said we have been here before.

Climate ActionNovember 2, 2025

Lanzarote to become climate laboratory

Excerpt from gazettelife.com All parties approved the proposal, which envisages turning Lanzarote into a space for innovation, research, and action against climate change. The project would acknowledge the island’s position as a vulnerable territory but also recognise its enormous potential to lead sustainable solutions. Councillor Armando Santana stressed that “the island has unique strengths: a recognized track record in landscape conservation thanks to the legacy of César Manrique, citizens committed to the environment, and huge potential in renewable energies, water management and sustainable mobility.”

Climate ActionNovember 2, 2025

The best way to help Hurricane Melissa survivors may not be what you think

Excerpt from vox.com Hurricane Melissa plowed through the Caribbean on Tuesday as an enormous Category 5 storm, knocking out power lines, flooding hospitals, and killing dozens of people in its path. Already, the damage has been catastrophic. In Haiti, at least 23 people have died, the highest death toll so far, many from flash flooding after the storm caused a river to burst over its banks on the country’s southern coast. And in Jamaica, where the storm made landfall at peak strength on Tuesday, the damage could amount to $22 billion, Accuweather predicted, more than the country’s entire GDP. At least four people were killed in Jamaica as of 5 pm ET on Wednesday.

Climate ActionNovember 2, 2025

Typhoon Odette survivors to sue oil giant Shell for climate damage

Excerpt from rappler.com MANILA, Philippines – Filipinos from the Visayas islands who suffered the wrath of Typhoon Odette in 2021 are set to sue British oil and gas company Shell before the courts in the United Kingdom for climate damage. “Napakalaking kumpanya ng Shell para banggain dahil sa pagpapatindi nila sa Super Typhoon Odette. Pero iniisip ko ‘yung kinabukasan ng magiging anak ko. Doon po ako humuhugot ng tapang,” one of the claimants, Trixy Elle, said on Thursday, October 23. (Shell is such a huge company to fight against over their contribution to exacerbating Super Typhoon Odette. But I’m thinking of my children’s future. That’s where I get courage.)

Climate ActionOctober 25, 2025

WHO launches first climate-health strategy in Fiji to protect lives and secure the future

Excerpt from pmn.co.nz The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched its first-ever regional strategy for climate and health action. The landmark plan was unveiled this week during a major health summit in Fiji, one of the Pacific island nations most acutely threatened by climate change. Health ministers and delegates from 38 countries across Asia and the Pacific are gathering in Nadi for the 76th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific, where the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan for the WHO Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health (ACE) was formally adopted.