Cop30 live: crucial climate talks begin in Brazil as hosts insist summit must lead to ‘implementation’

Ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries have gathered in the Amazonian city of Belem, with Brazil insisting this will be “the Cop of implementation”.

There has already been significant wrangling over the Cop30 agenda, with Simon Evans, a journalist from Carbon Brief, posting on on Bluesky yesterday afternoon that the agenda was already on its fourth iteration.

“Agenda fights have been common in recent years,” Evans reports, citing similar disagreements ahead of Cop29 in Azerbaijan. The negotiations cannot actually get started until the parties agree on what it is they will talk about.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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