Fire breaks out at COP30 climate summit venue in Brazil
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Brazil is ramping up efforts at the U.N. climate conference with a direct letter to nations and a draft text released Tuesday
More than 10 Harvard students and several faculty members traveled to Belém, Brazil this month to attend COP30, the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference.
More than 80 nations urge COP30 to adopt a stronger plan for transitioning away from fossil fuels, marking the most coordinated push since countries pledged to shift at COP28 in Dubai.
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Fire at Brazil US climate summit triggers chaos, disrupts high-stakes negotiations
"Firefighters and security teams responded promptly and continue to monitor the site," Brazil's COP30 organisers say.
General Antonio Guterres and Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are jumping into the United Nations climate talks as they get to crunch time.
Brazil wanted the U.N. summit to make it a leader on climate, despite signing off on oil drilling near the Amazon and gutting environmental permit law.
As Brazil's government seeks to boost its environmental credentials by hosting the United Nations' climate summit, a proposal to build a railway through the Amazon has threatened to tarnish that image amid protests by Indigenous groups.