🌍🌡️ Belém COPing with climate crisis

The United Nations Climate Conference (COP30) officially opens today in Belém, the capital of the Amazonian state of Pará. The stakes could hardly be higher. At a summit last week, world leaders acknowledged both the growing urgency of the climate crisis and the painfully slow pace of efforts to confront it.

Now begins the grind: two weeks of technical bargaining among over 140 countries to bridge wide gaps on who pays, who moves first and how to reconcile economic growth with climate constraints. Any final accord still requires consensus between oil exporters, major emerging economies and small island states staring at rising seas — all while wars and trade disputes crowd the global agenda.

Brazil is trying to…

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