From the Arctic to the Amazon, the traditional food gathering techniques of indigenous communities are under threat from accelerating climate change and economic pressures, the United Nations said on Friday.

Host Brazil will preside and set the agenda. For the talks to be a success, world leaders need to beef up efforts and money for adapting to climate change and fund billion-dollar efforts to prevent deforestation and land degradation, said Suely Vaz, who used to run Brazil’s environment agency.

The world has failed to meet its main climate change target and will likely breach this threshold in the next decade, the United Nations’ Environment Programme said Tuesday.

The findings underscore the task at hand for nations as they prepare for COP30 climate negotiations that begin Nov. 10 in Brazil. The U.N. report showed nations are on a path that would bake in long-term changes to the planet such as more deadly heat waves, runaway sea-level rise, and likelier extreme events like wildfires and droughts.

Ahead of the United Nations' annual climate conference, two U.S. Catholic bishops and the leader of a top Catholic aid agency are calling for urgent, long-term action to safeguard both creation and humanity.

World leaders descending on the United Nations annual climate summit in Brazil this week will not need to see much more than the view from their airplane window to sense the unfathomable stakes. Surrounding the coastal city of Belem is an emerald green carpet festooned with winding rivers.

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), taking place in Belém, Brazil, brings together world leaders, scientists, non-governmental

California Gov. Newsom will travel to Brazil next week to participate in the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference, his office said.

The leaders are calling on world leaders to act to implement the Paris Agreement, a 2015 international treaty to limit global warming that ‘protects God’s creation and people.’

The annual U.N. report card finds that, overall, countries are still far off-track from their stated goals to limit global warming.

Nearly three quarters of British teachers say they have not had enough training to educate students about climate change, the implications of global warming and how best to confront them, a poll showed on Tuesday.

While wealthy countries have pledged USD100 billion annually to help poorer nations address climate change, much of that funding remains stuck on paper — and less than one-quarter of total climate finance goes to adaptation.