Brazil will host this year's Cop30 climate talks. Can it get ready in time?

Belém prepares for an international conference on a far greater scale than anything previously seen in the AmazonFake metal trees have been set into the concrete ground of the Amazonian host city of this year's climate summit, prompting scandalised contrasts with the once-living vegetation that has been cleared in preparation for Cop30 in Brazil.But in an unlikely convergence of views, both the centre-right state governor and leftwing social movements insist this is a storm in a plant pot compared with the darkening geopolitical threats to the world's biggest diplomatic gathering, which will take place in November in Belém. Continue reading...