Brazil Tries to Keep Climate Cooperation Alive

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Brazil Tries to Keep Climate Cooperation Alive

At COP30, the global energy transition is moving forward without the United States. November 13, 2025, 1:00 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

A rainbow stretches across a partly cloudy sky outside a large building in the venue for COP30. Small groups of people mill about on the plaza beneath the rainbow.

BELÉM, Brazil—This humid Amazonian rainforest city is swarming with all the trappings of a United Nations climate summit except one: a U.S. negotiating team.

Tens of thousands of participants from more than 190 countries and dozens of Indigenous groups are staging two weeks of meetings, protests, and negotiations during this year’s summit, known as COP30. Though no U.S. diplomats are present, Foreign Policy has seen