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Are climate negotiators ready for a chaotic COP in Brazil?

The Economist · last updated

Belém is a ragged town in the Amazon that is hot, dotted with open sewers and short of hotel beds. Some 40% of its houses are not connected to a sewerage system. It is also the host of COP30, this year’s UN climate summit, which is sure to be chaotic. President Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement, under which countries vowed to try to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. That threatening threshold was broken last year, making climate talks look even more futile. And this will be the first COP in three years not held in an autocratic petro-state. Brazil, the host country, is a democracy with many vibrant and often rowdy charities and NGOs.

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