Brazil: Global leaders have converged in the Amazonian city of Belém for a landmark two-day summit aimed at reviving international climate cooperation ahead of next year’s United Nations Climate Conference (COP30). The meeting, hosted by Brazil, seeks to place tropical forest preservation and sustainable development at the heart of global climate action. Yet, as the talks begin, growing concerns over fading multilateral unity and absent world powers cast a shadow over the event’s ambitions.

The gathering holds immense symbolic value taking place in the world’s largest tropical rainforest, a crucial buffer against global warming. Hosting the pre-COP summit in Belém underscores Brazil’s renewed commitment to environmental leadership under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has posit

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