US EditionAs COP30 Opens, Urban Amazon Residents Swelter
- On Monday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees published No Escape II: The Way Forward to coincide with COP30 in Belem, Brazil, reporting about 250 million weather-related displacements over the past decade.
- UNHCR said climate change is compounding challenges for displaced people and their hosts, especially in fragile and conflict-affected settings, amid weakening global commitment to climate action.
- Projections show exposure rising sharply by 2040, citing floods in South Sudan and Brazil, heat in Kenya and Pakistan, water shortages in Chad and Ethiopia, with about 50,000 participants from more than 190 countries at COP30.
- Funding cuts are severely limiting the UNHCR's ability to protect displaced families, with Washington previously providing more than 40 percent of the budget, UN refugees chief Filippo Grandi said.
- Debate over the European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism complicates consensus, while the UNHCR said climate financing must reach communities already living on the edge to prevent displacement.
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Explainer: As COP30 gathers, what's the latest in climate science?
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These days, Belém do Pará becomes the epicenter of global climate policy. For the first time, the most important climate summit on the planet is taking place in the heart of the Amazon, where conservation depends on an important part of global climate stability. But this decision contains a paradox: Latin America contributes only 4-5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet it is one of the regions most vulnerable to the effects of climate chaos…
Don’t use COP30 to change ‘architecture’ of Paris deal: India
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COP30 stresses countries’ need for resilience to extreme weather
With typhoons tearing across Southeast Asia this week while areas of Jamaica and Brazil are still clearing debris from damaging storms, delegates at Brazil's COP30 summit began grappling with how best to help the vulnerable withstand worsening weather and other climate extremes. The topic of "adaptation" has grown more important as countries fail to rein in climate-warming emissions enough to prevent extreme warming linked to increasingly freque…
Brazil launches forest conservation fund at COP30
Brazil’s new multi-billion dollar fund for forest conservation, launched at COP30, is far short of its initial fundraising target, but should still be operational within the next 12 months, its top official told Semafor.Garo Batmanian, director-general of the Brazilian Forestry Service and coordinator of the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, said that past attempts to raise international donations for forest conservation have been held back beca…
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