Brazil, the host of last year’s COP30 climate summit, is pushing for a new way to cooperate on global warming. It involves two tracks, one marked by annual climate talks under the United Nations and another based on coalitions of countries that want to move further and faster to tackle rising temperatures.
The plan was outlined Tuesday by André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, the president of COP30, after the global talks late last year were marked by rising divisions among countries over the pace of global efforts to reduce fossil fuels, and softening support among rich nations to fund projects that would protect poorer countries against rising seas and other dangers.
The talks in November came as President Donald Trump, who rejects the basic tenets of climate science, openly sought to undermine international actions to reduce carbon pollution even as planet-warming emissions continue rising
“COP30 showed that a new model of global response is emerging,” do Lago wrote in a letter highlighting Brazil’s priorities following the talks, noting that climate action has moved beyond “international law, negotiating rooms, and technical reports.”
