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COP30 aims to mobilize $1.3 trillion annually by 2030 for climate finance and enhance Indigenous participation in climate justice efforts, focusing on fossil fuel phase-out commitments.
- In the Amazon, the COP30 gathering opens in Belém, Brazil, marking the 30th UN climate summit and its first hosted in the rainforest for two weeks in November.
- With finance talks central, negotiators confront the shortfall after developed countries failed to meet the US$100 billion goal and Cop29 set new targets, as progress toward US$1.3 trillion remains crucial.
- Organisers say Indigenous attendance will be larger than at any previous COP, with Indigenous and Amazonian communities demanding direct financing for community funds while Brazil launches the Tropical Forests Forever Facility backed by a $1 billion investment.
- Limited accommodation has left NGOs scrambling into tents and shipping containers, while Brazil's domestic policy actions approving new roads and Petrobras drilling expose host-country contradictions.
- Observers urge governance reform and stronger protections as Amnesty International brings climate defenders to press for a fossil-fuel phase-out amid US government under President Donald Trump opposition, advocating for the UN Climate Change Council.
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Brazil vows climate 'conference of action,' but serious action requires smashing fossil-fuel's clout
At COP30, Brazil promises a “conference of action.” But unless fossil-fuel power is broken, implementation will mean only managed decline — and another squandered decade. The setting could scarcely be more symbolic — the summit of the world’s climate...
COP30: Keep people, not profits and power, at heart of negotiations
Climate defenders from across Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru – some of the most dangerous countries in the world to defend the environment and climate – will be part of the Amnesty delegation to COP30 Amnesty International is also urging governments to resist aligning with US President Trump’s denial of the accelerating climate crisis and instead demonstrate true climate leadership COP30 leaders must keep people, and not profits and power, …
Brazil’s upcoming UN climate summit highlights how tricky climate pledges are to keep
Belem, Brazil. Pedro Magrod/ShutterstockFor two weeks during November, countries are coming together in the city of Belém in Brazil to negotiate their responses to climate change. This will be the 30th UN climate summit, known as Cop30. It marks ten years since the negotiation of the Paris agreement (a global agreement to keep temperature rise to well below 2°C, and as close to 1.5°C as possible). For the first time, this global summit is being …
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