Leaders from around the world met at a climate summit in Belem, Brazil, yesterday, voicing concern over a fractured global approach to climate change and criticising the U.S. government’s climate policies.

 

 

Ahead of COP30, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged nations to do more to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, highlighting the urgency of the climate crisis.

 

 

The conference city of Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon River and on the edge of the world’s largest rainforest, will host 50,000 participants from 10 to 21 of this month. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the location was chosen to keep discussions as close as possible to the heart of the issues facing the planet.

 

 

The summit will bring together a global assembly of leaders, scientists, and environmentalists, putting the Amazon rainforest firmly in the spotlight as the world debates solutions to the climate emergency.