Belém — 14 November 2025, On COP30 Day 4, the center of gravity shifted from negotiating rooms to people’s lives. Ministers of health, education and justice, youth leaders, judges, funders and standard-setters converged in Belém around a simple proposition: adaptation begins with protecting health, expanding knowledge and defending rights in
COP30 Day 3 underscored a clear message: the climate transition will rise or fall on society’s ability to build skills, protect cultural heritage, and strengthen trust in public information. With governments, multilateral institutions and civil society announcing new initiatives across jobs, education, Indigenous leadership and information integrity, the day marked
Belém – 12 November 2025, On Day 2 in Belém, COP30 shifted from global promises to local implementation. Ministers, mayors and regional leaders used the Amazon summit to show how climate action becomes real in streets, homes and utilities — through heat plans, housing policy, water infrastructure and waste systems
Belém – Under humid skies at the mouth of the Amazon, COP30 opened with an unusual asset for a UN climate summit: a negotiated agenda agreed on time. After a long night of talks, countries signed off on the programme for the next two weeks, elected Ambassador André Corrêa do
In the crowded corridors outside the COP30 negotiation rooms, the most consequential document on climate finance is not a treaty text but a roadmap. Drafted jointly by the Azerbaijani COP29 presidency and the Brazilian COP30 presidency, the Baku to Belém roadmap attempts to answer the question left hanging in Baku:
A working lunch at the Belém Climate Summit turned into a decisive financing moment as leaders from more than thirty countries and the UN Secretary-General joined Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to launch the Tropical Forest Forever Facility at the COP30 Leaders’ Summit. The agreement sets in motion
Under the dense canopy of the Amazon, COP30 opens as a test of both global resolve and political realism. Delegates from nearly 200 nations have arrived in Belém, a city straining under the weight of 50,000 visitors, to determine whether the world can still coordinate its climate future — and
Belém — As leaders converge on Belém for COP30, the European Union enters the summit with one of the most comprehensive climate packages ever presented — a plan to align global action with the Paris Agreement while deepening financial and industrial cooperation. “The global clean transition is ongoing and irreversible,”
NEW YORK CITY — On election night the cafés of Astoria pulsed with a kind of civic electricity. Taxi drivers leaned out of windows, students spilled onto Steinway Street, and volunteers who had been knocking on doors for months hugged in disbelief. When the final count came in, Assemblymember Zohran
Belém — The forest canopy outside Belém is becoming a testing ground for corporate climate action. In its largest-ever carbon removal deal, Google has agreed to finance the restoration of degraded Amazon land through a partnership with Mombak, a Brazilian startup replanting native forests to lock carbon back into the
