US EditionAt UN Climate Summit, World Leaders Say Time Is Running Short to Stop the Worst Effects of Warming
More than 190 nations confront climate challenges as Brazil leads efforts to fund forest conservation, despite economic pressures and absences of the US and Argentina.
- Leaders gathered in Belém, Brazil, for a two-day heads-of-state meeting ahead of COP30, with the United States and Argentina absent as President Donald Trump sent no officials and President Javier Milei boycotted.
- From January to August this year, the World Meteorological Organization reported the Earth's average temperature was about 1.42°C above pre-industrial levels and 2025 is on track to be among the hottest years.
- Amid domestic economic pressures, Lula defends Brazil's climate leadership while proposing the Tropical Forests Forever Facility to pay 74 heavily forested, developing countries, despite recently licensing Petrobras near the Amazon.
- Existing United Nations loss-and-damage funds have attracted only modest contributions, and the conference will test whether Brazil can mobilize enough financing amid $800 billion more investments in renewables than fossil fuels.
- Ocean and cryosphere indicators show accelerating risks: sea level rise quickens, Arctic and Antarctic ice hit record lows, and the ocean absorbs 90 per cent of excess heat but gets less than one per cent of climate finance.
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At UN Climate Summit, World Leaders Say Time Is Running Short to Stop the Worst Effects of Warming
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — World leaders warned Thursday that time is running short for urgent and decisive action to prevent the worst effects of climate change, and blasted the United States for its retreat from those efforts, as they gathered at the edge of Brazil's Amazon rainforest for the annual United Nations climate summit.
At UN climate summit, world leaders say time is running short to stop the worst effects of warming
World leaders gathering the in Brazil's Amazon rainforest for the U.N.‘s annual climate summit warned Thursday that time is running short for urgent and decisive...
World faces 'moral failure' for missing 1.5C: UN chief
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday said leaders must confront the "moral failure and deadly negligence" of missing the 1.5C climate target and urgently correct course at the COP30 summit. Dozens of heads of state and government are in the Brazilian Amazon ahead of next week's UN climate talks that come after scientists confirmed the safer limit of the Paris Agreement would be breached. "We have failed to ensure we remain below 1.5…
Ten years after the historic Paris climate agreement, the international community, from the perspective of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, has failed to keep global warming below the important 1.5-degree limit. "The bitter truth is that we have not managed to stay below 1.5 degrees," said Gutteres on Thursday at the start of the climate summit in front of some 50 heads of state and government in Belem, Brazil, where the World Climate Conf…
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As world leaders gather in Brazil for the COP30 climate summit, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday called for urgent action to drive down global temperatures and keep the 1.5°C goal within reach.
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