Speaking in Brazil, Keir Starmer admits ‘consensus is gone’ on climate crisis as governments across world row back on pledges to cut emissions

World leaders gathered at the COP30 Leaders' Summit in Belm, Brazil, to launch the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, a landmark global initiative aimed at channelling large-scale finance into the protection of tropical forests.

Ten years after Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, the Indigenous Krenak people are still mourning what they call “the death of the river.”

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday presented a new multibillion-dollar fund to protect tropical forests, as world leaders convened in the Amazonian city of Belém ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) next week.

World Leaders, Prince William, campaigners and academics are gathering at the climate change conference in Belem in the Amazon region

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres criticized nations failing to limit global warming in Brazil's pre-COP30 summit. Nations face choosing between leadership and destruction. The absence of major polluters like the US may open genuine multilateral discourse.

The Environmental Protection Ministry announces that unlike last year, there will be neither an Israeli pavilion nor a delegation to this month’s UN climate conference, COP30, set to be held in Belem, Brazil. It says the decision is due to “the diversion of resources resulting from the ongoing war and diplomatic campaign.”

From Nov. 10-21, 2025, world leaders, scientists, policymakers, industry representatives and delegates from around the globe will gather in the Amazon city of Belém, Brazil at the 30th United Nations (UN) Conference of the Parties,