Germany's Merz under fire in Brazil for his comments on Amazon host city of COP30

Brazilian authorities on Tuesday railed against comments by Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz in which he appeared to look ...

Use of artificial intelligence both praised and criticized at COP30 climate talks in Brazil

One expert calls AI an "completely unregulated beast around the world," while another calls it "so democratizing," but both ...

COP30 host Brazil pushes for progress on big issues

As United Nations climate talks bubble to a critical point, negotiators on Tuesday were pressured to ensure that oil — along ...

Brazil's COP30 slow shuffle climate negotiation turns into a sprint

Brazil is hoping to land an early agreement on some of the most contentious issues at the COP30 climate summit after ...

COP30 starts in Brazil and more top photos this week from the Caribbean and Latin America

An Indigenous group attended the opening ceremony of the People’s Summit offsite from the COP30 climate conference, while ...

Climate Protests Are Back at COP30, Held in Democratic Brazil

After years of UN climate summits in authoritarian countries, activists are again staging events to urge countries to do more ...

Brazil's COP30 climate summit opens with a plea for countries to get along

The COP30 climate summit opened with the U.N. climate chief urging countries to cooperate rather than battle over priorities, ...
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Brazil hosts COP30 with high ambitions — and scaling environmental ambiguities

Lula wants to push actions forward in Belém, but his words clash with the latest environmental gestures in Brazil.
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Heading into COP, Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate is falling. What about fires?

Brazil’s official data show deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the 12 months to July 2025, with independent monitoring by Imazon confirming a similar trend—evidence that policies under President ...