Climate Politics
COP30 Climate Summit Reaches Deal That Leaves Many Nations Unhappy
The venue for the COP30 climate summit in Belem, Para state, Brazil.
Photographer: Alessandro Falco/BloombergAlmost 200 nations gathered in Brazil for the United Nations’ annual climate summit capped two weeks of fraught negotiations with an agreement Saturday on new efforts to help guide their transition away from the fossil fuels driving global warming.
However, the accord dodged an explicit mention of the oil, gas and coal responsible for driving the bulk of climate change, and it didn’t detail plans for shifting away from them, leaving some countries unhappy with the outcome.