Brazil, COP30 and climate summit
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BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday urged countries to show leadership to address climate change and wean themselves off fossil fuels, speaking at the opening of a leaders summit in Brazil.
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday sought to mobilize funding to halt the ongoing destruction of tropical rainforests and advance the many unmet promises made at previous summits.
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A decade after the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, the treaty’s architect looks back at its legacy
As diplomats, scientists and activists from around the globe convene in Belém, Brazil, for COP30, The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Christiana Figueres, the former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and one of the architects of the Paris Agreement.
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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.
The light of the global climate alarm movement has faded throughout 2025, as even narrative-pushing luminaries like Bill Gates have
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U.N.’s Guterres Warns of “Devastating Consequences” as Nations Fail to Cap Global Heating at 1.5°C
The United Nations’ top official says the world has failed to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, the goal set by the Paris Climate Agreement to prevent the most devastating consequences of the climate crisis.
ATHENS, Greece -- U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Friday condemned the COP30 environmental summit as harmful and misguided — defying the global scientific consensus and concern by governments worldwide on climate change.
The gap between climate promises and climate action is barely narrowing, and that puts Earth on course for a “climate breakdown,” UN Sec. Gen. António Guterres warns.
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