After hosting the last climate summit, the South American country raised doubts about the 30-year-old paradigm based on consensus. Brazil, the host of last year’s COP30 climate summit, is pushing for ...

It's been three decades of COP talks - and as most of the climate metrics get worse, questions about whether the summits are working have become impossible to ignore. This year, approximately 40,000 ...

The 30th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) will take place in Belém, a remote, underdeveloped, and poor region of the Brazilian Amazon.

The annual UN climate change conference held in Brazil last year, known as COP30, concluded without a clear roadmap to phase out fossil fuels. It also laid bare a question that has long haunted ...

If you paid any attention at all to COP 30, the United Nations Climate Change Conference held last month in Belem, Brazil, you probably know about what didn’t happen: the United States refused to send ...

This year’s U.N. climate conference in Brazil had many unique aspects that could have been part of an historic outcome. COP30, as it’s called, was hosted in Belem, a city on the edge of the Amazon ...

Thirty years of climate diplomacy have institutionalized ambition, but not delivery or coherence. Multilateral institutions are under review — from the International Seabed Authority to the United ...

COP30 begins next week in Belém, Brazil, bringing together governments, civil society, and businesses in the heart of the Amazon. Even if you are not boarding a flight to Belém soon, the decisions ...

Pacific islanders decried on Thursday a wasted chance to draw eyes to their climate troubles, after their bid to co-host next year's COP climate summit was brushed aside. Australia had sought to ...

Alice C. Hill is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Angus Soderberg is a research associate for climate change policy at ...