Hosting global climate talks is never easy.
But Brazil is presiding over the COP30 negotiations at a time when the United States is retreating from international efforts to cut climate pollution, while promoting the production of more fossil fuels — the main source of rising temperatures.
Those tensions will fall most heavily on one man: André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, a veteran diplomat who’s taking a break as Brazil’s secretary for climate, energy and environment to oversee COP30 as the summit’s president.
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“It is a challenging year,” he said in an interview. But “it can open doors to new ideas and new direction.”
