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Indigenous Protest Blocks Entrance to UN Climate Summit

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Dozens of Indigenous protesters, some holding babies, peacefully blocked the entrance to the UN climate summit in Brazil on Friday to demand a meeting with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and discuss their plight in the Amazon. The human barrier of around 60 men and women, most in traditional garb and headdresses, lasted about two hours and ...

Amazon Poised to Host Toughest Climate Talks in Years

This is Beirut, 10/11 09:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

United Nations COP30 Belem Amazon 1.5°C

An odor of oil hung over last year's UN climate conference in Baku, the capital of fossil fuel-rich Azerbaijan. Starting Monday, the 50,000 participants of COP30 will instead feel the heavy, humid air of the Amazon rainforest in Belem, Brazil, where they face the daunting task of keeping global climate cooperation from collapsing. Unfazed, ...

Leaders Turn up the Heat on Fossil Fuels at Amazon Climate Summit

This is Beirut, 07/11 10:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Donald Trump United Nations COP30 Brazil Belem Oil

World leaders will meet for a second day of climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon on Friday after fiery speeches and renewed criticism of Big Oil marked the opening session. Dozens of ministers and several heads of state and government, including those of Spain, Germany and Namibia, will meet in Belem just before the United Nations' (UN) annual ...

Five Things to Know About 'Forest COP' Host City Belem

This is Beirut, 06/11 09:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

United Nations COP30 Brasil Belem

The eyes of the world are on Belem, a gateway city to the Brazilian Amazon playing host to what has been dubbed the "Forest COP" climate conference starting Monday. The city of 1.4 million got its name from Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ. In Portuguese, it translates as Belem. Under a law promulgated Tuesday by President Luiz Inacio ...

Trees, Targets and Trillions: What's on the Agenda at COP30?

This is Beirut, 04/11 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

United Nations Brasil COP30 Belem Climate

This year's United Nations climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the environmentally vulnerable Amazon. But what is actually on the agenda? The marathon negotiations gather nearly every country to confront a challenge that affects them all, but unlike recent editions, this "COP" has ...

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