By Kate Abnett, Valerie Volcovici and Johan Ahlander

BRUSSELS/BELEM (Reuters) -Governments heading to the U.N. COP30 climate summit in Brazil are bracing for the possibility that the Trump administration may seek to disrupt negotiations at the event – even without any U.S. officials showing up.

The White House has said it will not send high-level officials to the annual conference, noting that President Donald Trump made his views clear at the U.N. General Assembly in September when he described climate change as the world’s “greatest con job”.

However, the U.S. retains the option to send negotiators at any point during the November 10-21 COP30 talks, ahead of the country formally exiting the international Paris climate agreement in January.

Three European officials told Reuters the EU

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