15 h. ago Lula’s balancing act: Cop30 Amazon summit juggles climate and social priorities

Brazil’s president welcomes world leaders while navigating divided government, promising action on deforestation and emissionsHow could the Tropical Forest Forever Facility tackle deforestation?Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has welcomed world leaders to Belém for the first climate summit in the Amazon, where conservationists hope he can be a champion for the rainforest and its people.But with a divided administration, a hostile Congress and 20th-century developmentalist instincts, this global figurehead of the centre left has a balancing act to perform in advocating protection of nature and a reduction of emissions. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago World leaders ignore Trump’s threats and remind us how high the stakes are at Cop30

President Donald Trump’s loud cries of a climate ‘con job’ are being ignored, Nick Ferris writes from Belém

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23 h. ago Less arguing, more action: will Brazil’s unorthodox approach to Cop30 work?

Host uses Indigenous concepts and changes agenda to help delegates agree on ways to meet existing climate goalsShipping containers, cruise ships, river boats, schools and even army barracks have been pressed into service as accommodation for the 50,000 plus people descending on the Amazon: this year’s Cop30 climate summit is going to be, in many ways, an unconventional one.Located in Belém, a small city at the mouth of the Amazon river, the Brazilian hosts have been criticised for the exorbitant cost of scarce hotel rooms and hastily vacated apartments. Many delegations have slimmed down their presence, while business leaders have decamped to hold their own events in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago Prince William tells Cop30 'courage and unwavering commitment' needed to tackle climate crisis

The Prince of Wales made a landmark speech at the global climate summit in the Amazon in Brazil

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4 d. ago Brazil's Lula puts forward new vision for protecting the Amazon rainforest

Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says he wants the future of the Amazon rainforest to be built around a major fund that will pay countries to keep their forests standing

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4 d. ago Air pollution in Amazon rainforest worse than big cities like London and Beijing, new data shows

The cause of the pollution is largely fires set by humans to clear forest for cattle and pasturelands, according to the peer-reviewed findings

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5 d. ago Away from Brazil’s ‘forest’ Cop30 – the fate of the Congo Rainforest hangs in the balance

The Democratic Republic of Congo government has opened bids for oil and gas drilling across huge swathes of the country, raising fears that the world’s last great rainforest carbon sink could be destroyed, Nick Ferris reports

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7 d. ago Who decides how we adapt to climate change? | Leah Aronowsky

The question is not whether we will reshape our institutions to manage climate impacts, but howFor decades, “stopping climate change” has been the singular goal of climate politics. Across the political spectrum, from grassroots climate campaigners to elite UN negotiators, reducing carbon emissions to avoid future catastrophe has been the organizing logic of climate policies.Yet climate change has arrived and its material impacts are already being felt. This means that climate politics can no longer focus only on preventing future catastrophes. It must now also encompass struggles over how society manages climate impacts already reshaping economic and social life. Insurance markets, housing, water and land use policies, national labor markets, and local economies – all will need to be radically remade as we adapt to a changed and increasingly volatile climate.Leah Aronowsky is a historian of science and assistant professor at the Columbia Climate School Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Prince William will be joined by Kylie for the Earthshot Awards in Brazil next month

Prince William is travelling to Rio for the awards show next month and will stay on to join world leaders at Cop30 global climate change summit in Belem in the Amazon.

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