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Fiona Harvey<\/span><\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s running of Cop30 has been unorthodox from the start, with an insistence that effectively there was little to negotiate at this \u201cconference of the parties\u201d and that some of the biggest items \u2013 the roadmap to climate finance, the transition away from fossil fuels, and above all a response to the national climate plans that were supposed to be submitted ahead of this Cop \u2013 were not even to be on the agenda.<\/p>\n

The hosts have continued with their unusual approach: the Cop president has let it be known he wants to wrap up the most difficult issues at a ministerial meeting on Wednesday, gavel through the deal, and then allow the less contentious issues to be processed on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n

This would be the opposite of the usual Cop format, in which routine issues are dispensed with first and the final hours are an almost fisticuffs affair when ministers wrangle over their intractable differences \u2013 usually over money and responsibility for emissions cuts – late into the night.<\/p>\n

Gavelling through a \u201cBelem political package\u201d on Wednesday may be the aim \u2013 in practice, nations are still so wide apart on the key issues that it is vanishingly unlikely. The \u201cbig four\u201d issues have been known since the start of this Cop, when they were decanted out of the agenda and into special \u201cpresidency consultations\u201d on the first official day.<\/p>\n

They are: finance, transparency, trade and a response to the inadequacy of the national climate plans.<\/p>\n

Finance is a perennial issue at Cops and last year developing countries were frustrated when their developed counterparts agreed only $300bn of the promised $1.3 trillion in climate finance annually by 2035 would come directly from rich country coffers. So some developing country groupings have proposed discussions on Article 9.1 of the Paris agreement, which requires developed countries to provide finance to the poor world. Rich countries see this as an attempted bear trap, to wrap them into a model of climate finance based on the 1992 division of countries (under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, parent treaty to the 2015 Paris agreement) into developed and developing, which they argue no longer applies as countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates have grown rich on their oil wealth, and high-performing economies such as South Korea and Singapore have GDP per capita higher than EU member states.<\/p>\n

Trade is likewise contentious as China and many developing countries have been angered by the EU\u2019s green tariff. The carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) places a charge on imports of high-carbon goods such as steel, when they come from jurisdictions with weak controls on carbon. China argues that the EU\u2019s carbon price is too high, and poorer countries are worried that they are being unfairly caught up in the row and will be penalised. Though the EU\u2019s CBAM has been the lightning rod for discontent, there are many trade disparities in the developing world: some poor countries levy tariffs on imports of green goods, such as renewable energy components. The EU argues that the UNFCCC is not the arena in which to raise or settle trade issues.<\/p>\n

Transparency refers to the question of the biennial transparency reports that countries must submit to the UN under the Paris agreement, showing how they are cutting or curbing their greenhouse gas emissions, and how they are providing or using climate finance. Many countries dislike having to disclose detailed information, regarding the \u201cmeasurement, reporting and verification\u201d as a potential infringement of national sovereignty, but without such data it is impossible to judge how the world is progressing on the Paris targets.<\/p>\n

The most important of the \u201cbig four\u201d issues is the response to the NDCs. Under the Paris agreement, parties must produce NDCs \u2013 national plans on greenhouse gas emissions, also showing measures to meet them and finance needs \u2013 on a five-year cycle. This year was delivery year for the third round of NDCs: the first, presented at Paris, would have led to warming of about 3.6C; the second, at Glasgow in 2021 to about 2.8C; and the current round, still being submitted by some countries at Cop30, would cook the planet to about 2.5C.<\/p>\n

The question of how these inadequate proposals can be reconciled with the Paris agreement goal of limiting global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels \u2013 which has already been breached for two years, but could still be held to in the longer term according to optimistic estimates \u2013 is now one of the defining issues for Cop30. So far, the text suggests more negotiations, coming back next year, or encouraging countries to do better. All of these are weak.<\/p>\n

Finally, Brazil has had to bow to pressure from the more than 80 countries that want to see a \u201ctransition away from fossil fuels\u201d to be on the agenda for Cop30. A draft \u201cmutirao decision\u201d including some potential wording on the issue was released on Tuesday, containing several potential options for such wording. The countries that refuse to accept any mention of the phaseout \u2013 which was committed to at Cop28 in 2023 but has been under attack since – are likely to make their views known on Wednesday. Fresh drafts will be prepared, and Brazil\u2019s stated intention of moving to a final draft that has whittled down the options to a single pathway by the end of Wednesday are certainly optimistic.<\/p>\n

Correa do Lago is hosting heads of delegation, and facilitating shuttle diplomacy among the competing nations and regional and special interest groupings in Belem. President Lula\u2019s arrival in Belem is supposed to galvanise the talks \u2013 he and the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, who is also in town, will use their charm and influence to try to bridge disagreements and broke deals among the conflicting parties.<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s changes to the Cop format may help to produce movement, but at the end this process always comes down to the same basic formula: countries meeting in windowless rooms hashing out the details of potential compromises, and \u2013 when it goes right \u2013 surrendering some of their perceived short term national interest to the common good.<\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a008.37 EST<\/p>\n

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<\/span>Jonathan Watts<\/span><\/span>Letters from young children to the presidency about their hopes for the future at Cop30<\/span> Photograph: Fernando Llano\/AP<\/p>\n

\u2018Why do we need to prove that we\u2019re afraid in order to be taken seriously?\u2019<\/p>\n

Five youths from around the world will call for a COP for children in the Bel\u00e9m conference centre today in recognition that this generation is among the most vulnerable to the climate crisis.<\/p>\n

They will tell stories in the Blue Zone of how their lives are affected by rising temperatures and ever more extreme weather, then make a demonstration in the corridors of the conference centre.<\/p>\n

The organisers of the event say children represent one-third of the world\u2019s population. Three-in-four of them live in the Global South, which is bearing the brunt of droughts, floods, storms and heatwaves.<\/p>\n

At least 5.9 million children could fall into poverty by 2030 as a result of the climate crisis and 242 million students have already had their classes disrupted by extreme climate events say the S\u00e3o Paulo-based Alana Institute, which describes itself as a social and environmental impact organization that promotes and inspires a better world for children.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call for a COP for Children, in which we have for the first time a bold decision on child sensitive language,\u201d they say. \u201cTherefore, we urge Parties to include children as a primary consideration, as referred to in Article 3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, by addressing the disproportionate impacts of climate change on children and relevant policy solutions in national planning and implementation processes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the institute arranged a three-generation exchange between 40 children and adolescents with leaders such as Mary Robinson, Ana Lucia Villela and Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim. One 11-year-old named Vicente asked the elders: \u201cWhy do we need to prove that we\u2019re afraid in order to be taken seriously?\u201c<\/p>\n

Jo\u00e3o Paulo Amaral, of the institute said: \u201cIf this is the COP of Inclusion, we cannot leave one-third of the world population behind. We need this COP to consider children as a primary consideration, as their health and life are at risk. Let\u2019s remember, every adult was a child and a safer climate for children is a safer climate for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a010.46 EST<\/p>\n

WaterAid climate campaigners are at the Cop30 conference and earlier this week handed in an open letter calling on governments to place water at the heart of their climate plans.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Samia Anwar Rafa, a WaterAid Young Climate Leader from Bangladesh<\/span> Photograph: WaterAid<\/p>\n

Samia Anwar Rafa, a youth WaterAid campaigner from Bangladesh said:<\/p>\n

I want to see more climate financing flowing into communities who are the most vulnerable to climate impacts. Like in Bangladesh, where we\u2019re experiencing the harsh realities of climate change with severe cyclones, prolonged droughts and increasingly salty drinking water<\/p>\n

Frequently left out of the COP process and often unable to follow its progress, these communities suffer the worst impacts of floods, droughts, and unsafe water access. <\/p>\n

This week, we need to make decisions that are felt around the world \u2013 from Belem to Bangladesh. We don\u2019t want to just see empty promises, we need to see delivery now.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Barkat Bin Sa\u00efda Matazaky, a WaterAid Young Climate Leader from Madagascar<\/span> Photograph: WaterAid<\/p>\n

Barkat Bin Sa\u00efda Matazaky, a WaterAid Young Climate Leader from Madagascar said:<\/p>\n

Water connects us, sustains us, yet too often it fails to reach everyone equally. From my perspective, in Madagascar, there are communities whose survival, health, and livelihoods would depend entirely on reliable access to clean water.<\/p>\n

\u201cClimate risks are intensifying: some regions face severe droughts while others experience devastating floods. Without proper coordination, investments remain fragmented, and vulnerable communities risk being left behind.<\/p>\n

ShareDamian Carrington<\/span><\/span>Mother Earth at Cop30 in Brazil today. “I am taking care to watch over all the decisions taken here about me\u201d<\/span> Photograph: Damian Carrington\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

Mother Earth is watching over Cop30. \u201cI am taking care to watch over all the decisions taken here about me,\u201d she told the Guardian. The blessing card she presented said: \u201cKnowing the powerful impact my thoughts can have on others and the environment, I choose to create a positive mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n

This beautiful vision is in everyday life Nazar\u00e9 Oliveira, an indigenous woman from Bel\u00e9m, and a descendant of the Potyguar people. She is part of the international spiritual organisation Brahma Kumaris, led by women and which uses meditation to emphasise the concept of identity as souls rather than bodies and the idea that humanity and nature are one.<\/p>\n

ShareDamien Gayle<\/span><\/span>Mexican climate activist Maria Reyes, of the Alliance of Non-Governmental Radical Youth (Angry), speaks to the Guardian at the Cop30 conference<\/span> Photograph: Damien Gayle\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

The militarisation of the space around Cop30 has been \u201cconfusing and disappointing\u201d, Mexican climate activist Maria Reyes has said.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Climate Justice Hub at the UN climate summit, Reyes, who campaigns with the Alliance of Non-Governmental Radical Youth (Angry), told the Guardian.<\/p>\n

This is my fifth COP. I\u2019ve been around since COP26 in Glasgow and this has been the most militarised COP I\u2019ve attended. We had really high expectations because I\u2019m from Latin America, and this is also the Latin American COP \u2013 apart from the Amazonian and the Brazilian Cop.<\/p>\n

So we had really high expectations of also being able to demonstrate, protest and exercise our right to the civic space. But we have encountered heavy militarisation and a heavy crackdown on civil society protesting outside the venue.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s been very confusing and disappointing because the last three COPs have happened in countries where the civil society cannot protest and cannot mobilise outside. And mobilising is a fundamental right for exercise in civic space.<\/p>\n

Responding to the intervention by Simon Stiell, the UNFCCC chief executive, whose letter to the Brazilian authorities seemed to be the trigger for the increase in security measures around the Hangar Conference Centre in Bel\u00e9m since last week, Reyes said:<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s very disconcerting. Like it was definitely a very racist letter where the UN seems to want to inflict power over the autonomous territory of Brazilian authorities.<\/p>\n

But Reyes said she was hopeful that the tensions between the host country, the UN and civil society could have a positive outcome. She said:<\/p>\n

I think this is a confrontation that is needed. What\u2019s happening in between civil society, the military and the UN, it\u2019s a reflection of the tension that exists within this space. So I hope for this COP that the United Nations authorities and the Brazilian authorities open their eyes and they realise that what they are doing, what they are inflicting with the militarisation of COP is completely opposite of what they have been preaching in the last three years.<\/p>\n

Brazil knew that they wanted to host this COP since three years ago, probably even earlier. So the way that they are responding to it does not show that they were ready to receive all this flow of international civil society. So my hope is that they can release, relax the heavy militarization that they\u2019re putting in the space and allow us to use the civic space to demonstrate.<\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a009.27 EST<\/p>\n

For more on China\u2019s position at this Cop my colleagues Fiona Harvey and Jonathan Watts had this story overnight<\/p>\n

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Carbon Brief has a roundup of news from Cop30 including this, from Politico, on China\u2019s top envoy criticising EU targets and Trump\u2019s \u201cbad example.\u201d<\/p>\n

China\u2019s climate envoy Liu Zhenmin has told Politico at Cop30 that the EU and other developed countries should achieve net-zero before 2040. However, China and the EU \u201ccould step up their cooperation\u201d on climate issues, Liu is described as saying, according to the outlet. He also states that the absence of the US \u201creally creates a very bad example\u201d, but stresses there is \u201cno real replacement\u201d for the US in fighting climate change, the outlet adds.<\/p>\n

Todd Stern, former US climate envoy, tells the Shanghai-based news outlet the Paper that the participation of some US Democrat leaders at COP30, \u201cwhile it may not have the same impact as the personal involvement of the US president, it is still very important and sufficient to demonstrate to the world: the US has not abandoned climate action; it remains \u2018all in\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n

Li Shuo, director of the China Climate Hub at the US-based Asia Society Policy Institute, says that \u201coversimplifying Beijing as a climate laggard could mean reali[s]ing too late that Chinese companies have already far outpaced their Western counterparts in the clean-tech sector\u201d, Deutsche Welle reports.<\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a008.44 EST<\/p>\n

Fiona Harvey<\/span><\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s running of Cop30 has been unorthodox from the start, with an insistence that effectively there was little to negotiate at this \u201cconference of the parties\u201d and that some of the biggest items \u2013 the roadmap to climate finance, the transition away from fossil fuels, and above all a response to the national climate plans that were supposed to be submitted ahead of this Cop \u2013 were not even to be on the agenda.<\/p>\n

The hosts have continued with their unusual approach: the Cop president has let it be known he wants to wrap up the most difficult issues at a ministerial meeting on Wednesday, gavel through the deal, and then allow the less contentious issues to be processed on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n

This would be the opposite of the usual Cop format, in which routine issues are dispensed with first and the final hours are an almost fisticuffs affair when ministers wrangle over their intractable differences \u2013 usually over money and responsibility for emissions cuts – late into the night.<\/p>\n

Gavelling through a \u201cBelem political package\u201d on Wednesday may be the aim \u2013 in practice, nations are still so wide apart on the key issues that it is vanishingly unlikely. The \u201cbig four\u201d issues have been known since the start of this Cop, when they were decanted out of the agenda and into special \u201cpresidency consultations\u201d on the first official day.<\/p>\n

They are: finance, transparency, trade and a response to the inadequacy of the national climate plans.<\/p>\n

Finance is a perennial issue at Cops and last year developing countries were frustrated when their developed counterparts agreed only $300bn of the promised $1.3 trillion in climate finance annually by 2035 would come directly from rich country coffers. So some developing country groupings have proposed discussions on Article 9.1 of the Paris agreement, which requires developed countries to provide finance to the poor world. Rich countries see this as an attempted bear trap, to wrap them into a model of climate finance based on the 1992 division of countries (under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, parent treaty to the 2015 Paris agreement) into developed and developing, which they argue no longer applies as countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates have grown rich on their oil wealth, and high-performing economies such as South Korea and Singapore have GDP per capita higher than EU member states.<\/p>\n

Trade is likewise contentious as China and many developing countries have been angered by the EU\u2019s green tariff. The carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) places a charge on imports of high-carbon goods such as steel, when they come from jurisdictions with weak controls on carbon. China argues that the EU\u2019s carbon price is too high, and poorer countries are worried that they are being unfairly caught up in the row and will be penalised. Though the EU\u2019s CBAM has been the lightning rod for discontent, there are many trade disparities in the developing world: some poor countries levy tariffs on imports of green goods, such as renewable energy components. The EU argues that the UNFCCC is not the arena in which to raise or settle trade issues.<\/p>\n

Transparency refers to the question of the biennial transparency reports that countries must submit to the UN under the Paris agreement, showing how they are cutting or curbing their greenhouse gas emissions, and how they are providing or using climate finance. Many countries dislike having to disclose detailed information, regarding the \u201cmeasurement, reporting and verification\u201d as a potential infringement of national sovereignty, but without such data it is impossible to judge how the world is progressing on the Paris targets.<\/p>\n

The most important of the \u201cbig four\u201d issues is the response to the NDCs. Under the Paris agreement, parties must produce NDCs \u2013 national plans on greenhouse gas emissions, also showing measures to meet them and finance needs \u2013 on a five-year cycle. This year was delivery year for the third round of NDCs: the first, presented at Paris, would have led to warming of about 3.6C; the second, at Glasgow in 2021 to about 2.8C; and the current round, still being submitted by some countries at Cop30, would cook the planet to about 2.5C.<\/p>\n

The question of how these inadequate proposals can be reconciled with the Paris agreement goal of limiting global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels \u2013 which has already been breached for two years, but could still be held to in the longer term according to optimistic estimates \u2013 is now one of the defining issues for Cop30. So far, the text suggests more negotiations, coming back next year, or encouraging countries to do better. All of these are weak.<\/p>\n

Finally, Brazil has had to bow to pressure from the more than 80 countries that want to see a \u201ctransition away from fossil fuels\u201d to be on the agenda for Cop30. A draft \u201cmutirao decision\u201d including some potential wording on the issue was released on Tuesday, containing several potential options for such wording. The countries that refuse to accept any mention of the phaseout \u2013 which was committed to at Cop28 in 2023 but has been under attack since – are likely to make their views known on Wednesday. Fresh drafts will be prepared, and Brazil\u2019s stated intention of moving to a final draft that has whittled down the options to a single pathway by the end of Wednesday are certainly optimistic.<\/p>\n

Correa do Lago is hosting heads of delegation, and facilitating shuttle diplomacy among the competing nations and regional and special interest groupings in Belem. President Lula\u2019s arrival in Belem is supposed to galvanise the talks \u2013 he and the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, who is also in town, will use their charm and influence to try to bridge disagreements and broke deals among the conflicting parties.<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s changes to the Cop format may help to produce movement, but at the end this process always comes down to the same basic formula: countries meeting in windowless rooms hashing out the details of potential compromises, and \u2013 when it goes right \u2013 surrendering some of their perceived short term national interest to the common good.<\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a008.37 EST<\/p>\n

And while we are looking at industry lobbyists and their impact on Cop30 my colleague Nina Lakhani wrote this piece over night on big agriculture\u2019s presence at these negotiations.<\/p>\n

ShareDamian Carrington<\/span><\/span>TotalEnergies Chairman and CEO Patrick Pouyanne speaks during a meeting at COP30<\/span> Photograph: Mauro Pimentel\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Big oil is still trotting out the climate denial trope that \u201cthe climate has always changed\u201d here at Cop30..<\/p>\n

TotalEnergies chief executive Patrick Pouyanne was confronted by a Greenpeace campaigner, after speaking on a panel.<\/p>\n

The encounter was reported by AFP:<\/p>\n

The Greenpeace activist demanded the fossil fuel industry compensate victims of extreme weather events.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been cyclones in the Caribbean for decades,\u201d Pouyanne retorted.<\/p>\n

When told they were \u201caccelerating,\u201d he replied: \u201cI am not a scientist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not a meteorologist,\u201d Pouyanne said when asked by AFP about science showing hurricanes are becoming more intense.<\/p>\n

\u201cI simply observe that, unfortunately, there were (cyclones), there are still (cyclones) and there will be more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Cop30 negotiator also sought to ignore the clear and present dangers of the climate crisis: \u201cIf we start living without fossil fuels, even people in [rich nations] will suffer, believe me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As we wait for things to swing into action in Belem my colleague Damian Carrington says protesters were out in force around Cop30 conference centre as he made his way in this morning \u2013 including one group holding a sign that read \u201cwe\u2019ll be less activist if you\u2019ll be less shit\u201d \u2013 a fairly direct challenge to those inside the venue as negotiations resume.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Anti fossil fuel protesters outside Cop30. One the sign declares \u201cwe\u2019ll be less activist if you\u2019ll be less shit\u201d<\/span> Photograph: Damian Carrington\/The Guardian<\/span>Protesters inside Cop30 this morning<\/span> Photograph: Damian Carrington\/The GuardianShare<\/p>\n

Updated at\u00a007.25 EST<\/p>\n

Brazilian president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva is due to fly back to Bel\u00e9m on Wednesday as momentum surged behind efforts to include a roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels and ending deforestation as one of the key outcomes of Cop30.<\/p>\n

More than 80 countries have put their weight behind moves to plot a path out of the era of coal, oil and gas, though they face strong resistance from petrostates and other major economies in the remaining few days of the negotiations.<\/p>\n

The task now for Lula will be to persuade China and India to back the proposal, and to get support from the European Union to provide extra finance. Only then will this historical political mandate be possible.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian presidency of COP30 insists the global talks will end as scheduled on Friday, but with other key topics, including finance and trade, also unresolved, this will require huge breakthroughs. It would also break a sequence of COP overruns stretching back more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

Observers have been encouraged that the main negotiating text is relatively \u201cclean\u201d, which means that, compared to previous years, there are fewer brackets denoting areas of disagreement.<\/p>\n

A transition away from fossil fuels was not included in the agenda for this conference, but Lula has spelled out in three previous speeches here in Bel\u00e9m that he wants a roadmap to be among the results. The return of this global south figurehead will add impetus to the negotiations and could help to secure support from China, a Brics ally whose president Xi Jinping has stressed support for the COP presidency and multilateral decision making.<\/p>\n

A roadmap for eliminating the main source of the emissions that are heating the world could potentially constitute significant progress, but the devil will be in the detail. Some advocates fear the current wording is too vague to be effective. They want it to have measurable goals and clear action plans.<\/p>\n

For this to have any chance of success, Cop30 will also have to move forward on the vexed issue of finance. Wealthy industrialised economies, which are most to blame for climate breakdown, have agreed to help developing countries with the energy transition and adapt to the already dire consequences of climate breakdown. But the commitments so far have fallen short of what is needed and many of the promised funds have yet to materialise.<\/p>\n

The need for urgent action has been made apparent by the presence of indigenous leaders and scientists and at the conference. Forest people have spelled out how their territories have suffered from devastating droughts in recent years, as well as land invasions and illegal mining. Climatologists have warned that the Amazon and other biomes are fast degrading towards a point of no return that would have dire global consequences.<\/p>\n

If Bel\u00e9m can encourage nations to fulfill their promises, this situation would look a less less bleak. This morning, a new analysis by Climate Action Tracker coalition revealed the<\/p>\n

the rate of global heating could be cut by a third in the next decade if governments simply honoured their existing commitments to triple the amount of renewable energy generated by 2030, double global energy efficiency by the same date, and make substantial cuts to the powerful greenhouse gas methane.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian hosts of Cop30 have described this as the \u201caction summit.\u201d Over the next three – or more – days, we will find out how much it can deliver.<\/p>\n

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Good morning, it is Matthew Taylor here and I will be hosting the liveblog for the next few hours, keeping across all the latest developments from Cop30 in Brazil.<\/p>\n

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