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Fire disrupts COP30 in Brazil: Belem venue evacuated; key climate talks stalled

A fire ripped through several pavilions at the COP30 climate summit in Belem on Thursday, triggering evacuations and stalling negotiations just as delegates entered a decisive phase.The blaze, which tore through the roof of a temporary structure at the entrance to the venue, sent thousands of attendees fleeing as smoke rapidly filled enclosed corridors, according […]

Fire disrupts COP30 climate summit in Brazil

A fire forced organizers of the UN’s COP30 climate talks in Belem in northern Brazil to empty the site on Thursday. Reporters and other attendees were sent a circular note saying there was a “fire incident in Zone B,” and asking them to “evacuate the venue immediately.” A siren sounded inside the venue signaling participants […]

COP30: How Brazilian crime cartels undermine climate efforts |

As the World Climate Conference, COP30, is underway in Belem, Brazil, the disastrous consequences of environmental crimes are visible across the Amazon. This highlights an oft-overlooked fact in the fight to combat a warming world: Tackling organized crime is also key to safeguarding the climate. In the Amazon, criminal groups like the Comando Vermelho (CV), […]

What the U.S. Absence at COP30 Tells Us

new video loaded: What the U.S. Absence at COP30 Tells Us World leaders are meeting at the COP30 this week to discuss climate. The U.S. was not part of this meeting. Somini Sengupta, our international climate reporter, discusses what this absence means. By Somini Sengupta, Katrin Bennhold, Christina Thornell, Leila Medina and Stephanie Swart November […]

Watch: Environment protestors storm into Cop30 venue in Brazil; clash with security

Indigenous peoples shout slogans about defending the Amazon at the People’s Summit, a gathering coinciding with the COP30 UN Climate Summit (AP photo) Tensions erupted late Tuesday evening at the Cop30 climate conference in Belém, Brazil, after a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous protesters forced their way into the main conference centre, leading to scuffles […]

Earth’s reality check: UN Climate Change Conference COP30 venue flooded in Brazil – Watch

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) began on Monday in Belém, Brazil, bringing together around 50,000 participants from more than 190 countries, including diplomats, policymakers, and climate experts, for the 11-day event in the Amazon region.However, the opening day was disrupted by heavy rain that caused flooding in several parts of the city, […]

Trump is not going to COP30 in Brazil, but America is

The global community expected as much from a president who has pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement for the second time, slashed funding for renewable energy, championed fossil fuel projects and told world leaders at the UN in September that climate change is the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.“But […]

COP30 snub: US to skip top-level presence in Brazil; Donald Trump ‘directly engaging’ with leaders on energy issues

File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) The United States will not send any top officials to the COP30 climate talks in Brazil later this month, a White House official confirmed on Saturday, as President Donald Trump focuses on boosting fossil fuels rather than global climate negotiations.Trump, who withdrew from the Paris Agreement […]

Don’t make ‘disappointing’ retreat on climate, COP30 CEO urges EU

PARIS: Europe is “absolutely vital” to the fight against global warming and its leadership must not waver as climate ambition backslides elsewhere, the CEO of November’s COP30 summit in Brazil told AFP.In an interview in Paris, Ana Toni urged the European Union to unite around a strong emissions reduction target as the 27-nation bloc squabbles […]