India, China and the United States are absent or underrepresented at COP30 in Brazil, a country that, in 2024, broke the record for fossil fuel exploration contracts.
The President of Brazil, Lula da Silva, says this is the time to impose a defeat on climate change deniers. Delegations from 170 countries begin, this Monday, in Belém, Brazil, a two-week negotiation marathon to find solutions to the climate crisis.
The Amazon plays a vital role in combating climate change, by absorbing greenhouse gases stove, but deforestation and fires are subverting the function of the planet’s lungs.
A The largest tropical forest in the world was, in fact, the largest emitter of these gases, in 2024. Now welcome the whose mission is to prevent the collapse of global cooperation to halt climate change.
In 2015, the committed the world to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
A fiasco, they point out activistswhich is not unrelated to the boycott of the world’s biggest polluters.
India, China and the United States are absent or underrepresented at COP30.
Trump withdrew US from Paris Agreement
One of the first measures of Donald Trump when he returned to the White House he signed a presidential decree to withdraw, once again, from the Paris Agreement.
Trump canceled programs to encourage energy transition, the opposite of what COP30 participants intended, reducing dependence on fossil fuels and expanding the use of renewable sources.
Promoting countries’ climate adaptation to climate impacts by ensuring financing at scale are goals priorities of the meeting in Brazil.
The licensing of oil exploration blocks days before the conference generated criticism of inconsistency in relation to the decarbonization discourse.
In 2024, Brazil broke the record for fossil fuel exploration contracts.
