US absent, summit targets China

The UN climate summit COP30 opened in Belém, Brazil, with the United States absent and attention turned to China as delegates clashed over raising emissions targets versus climate finance.

La Repubblica

Il paradosso di Belém: come è alimentata tutta la Cop30? A gasolio

The Belém paradox: how is COP30 powered? By diesel Yesterday the climate conference opened and, after initial clashes, the agenda was approved. Yet the contradictions of COP in the heart of the Amazon remain, where it continues to rain. The electricity secured for a space the size of sixteen football pitches is adequate.

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Le Monde

On the first day of COP30 in Belem, the battle over the discussion agenda pits stronger targets against the financing issue

The world's most vulnerable countries, backed by Europeans, are pushing for higher ambitions on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Other countries, led by China and India, want to reopen the climate finance issue.

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New York Times

At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Chinese Technology Is Shifting Climate Politics

At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.

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Kathimerini

Notable absences at COP30

The climate summit began in Brazil without the United States, China, Russia, or India.

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Financial Times

UN climate summit looks to China as latest data shows flat emissions trend

The absence of the US at COP30 has put the focus on the world's other big emitters

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Dagens Nyheter

Maybe it doesn't sound sexy to spend money on sewage

BÉLÉM. The UN climate meeting COP30 will strengthen the role of cities in the global climate effort. That is the view of Malmö's leading Social Democrat Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, who attends the meeting in Brazil in the role of chair of ICLEI, a global network of mayors working for sustainable cities.

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ABC

A tightrope walker walks between two buildings at the Plaza de España in Madrid to protest the climate crisis

While COP30 opens across the Atlantic in Belém, Brazil, a Greenpeace campaigner walked across Madrid's skyline on Monday between two hotels at the emblematic Plaza de España, on a highline rope 30 meters above the ground, bearing the slogan 'The planet, on the tightrope' as part of a Greenpeace campaign. The activist traversed the 55 meters between the Riu Plaza España and the Barceló Torre de Madrid. 'With this action, we want to announce the start of the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30). A summit arriving at a critical moment for global climate action: ten years after the Paris Agreement,' the NGO said in a statement. The meeting has two notable absences—U.S. President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping. Greenpeace stresses that the commitments made 'flounder, wobble, or risk falling off the agenda.' The NGO also denounced that, in 2025, several events threaten the advances achieved after decades of effort by civil society movements, governments, and international organizations. 'Walking on the tightrope symbolizes the urgency to move forward firmly and keep taking steps in the right direction,' they said, while urging the Spanish government to lead a 'bold and ambitious' stance at COP.

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Handelsblatt

World Climate Conference: One trip through the jungle: Activists' ship reaches COP30

From across various corners of South and Central America, dozens of Indigenous people have set out together by ship. They have a clear message for the climate conference in Brazil.

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Público

COP30: the Amazon under the world’s eyes

Climate action is only fair if it keeps societies prosperous, creating jobs, opportunities, and a future in communities. The test is simple: do communities prosper as industries shift? Chronicle by Bianca Castro

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

COP30 World Climate Conference: The Belém Opportunity

The world climate conference is derided as a traveling circus that harms the climate more than it helps. But only there can global agreements be reached.