News on Cúpula do clima

COP DIARY —

Heat concerns at Belém airport after ‘alarming’ upgrade assessment

Guilherme Guerreiro Neto ,

Guajará Bay, Belém, Amazon ,

28 July 2025

Brazil's aviation authority warns renovation works may be falling behind schedule as temperatures exceed allowable limits

FRONTLINE DISPATCH —

The Norte Energia media machine powering Belo Monte

Rubens Valente ,

Cerrado, Brasília ,

26 June 2025

With COP30 on the horizon, the company that devastated the Xingu river is doubling down on its strategy of releasing ‘positive news’ about the plant, using the same press agents as the Mines and Energy Ministry

Our Voice —

A shout-out for the silent climate majority

Jonathan Watts ,

Xingu River, Altamira, the Amazon ,

5 May 2025

Sumaúma joins a global media collaboration against the ‘false social reality’ created by billionaires with bullhorns

Amazonizing COP —

COP DIARY —

Belém rushes for COP visitors, but can’t guarantee housing for its citizens

Guilherme Guerreiro Neto ,

Belém, Pará, Amazon ,

5 May 2025

In Pará’s capital, almost 60% of the population lives in favelas. Low-income residents are driven out by public works while the city receives hundreds of millions of dollars to prepare for the climate summit

Amazonizing COP —

Forest diplomats fight for space at the center of COP-30

Guilherme Guerreiro Neto ,

Belém, Pará, Amazon ,

18 March 2025

After three conferences in countries with restrictions on protests, Amazonian leaders and social movements are demanding the participation of civil society in Belém but questions remain about how to force member States to listen to ‘non-parties’

Amazonizing COP —

COP DIARY —

Change by ‘choice or catastrophe,’ warns COP30 president

Claudia Antunes ,

Atlantic Forest, Rio de Janeiro ,

10 March 2025

In a ‘letter to the world,’ ambassador André Corrêa do Lago proposes a “joint effort” by society to fight climate collapse, yet it fails to bring proposals to the table for eliminating oil and providing financing to the most affected countries

Amazonizing COP —

Opinion —

COP-30: Brazil needs to get real

Claudia Antunes ,

Atlantic Forest, Rio de Janeiro ,

21 January 2025

The conference is not a meeting on tourism or business, nor is it a political campaign; it is the last chance to get the planet – and the country – off a course toward collapse and make climate agreements credible again

Interview —

Liternatura —

The all-consuming flame

Gabi Martínez ,

Barcelona, Spain ,

16 January 2025

In the wake of the devastating forest fires in Los Angeles, author John Vaillant explains what he learned by writing a book on our species’ burning addiction and how it is linked to the oil industry and evangelical religion

Planet in Collapse —

The climate COP hands the future of the planet to the market

Claudia Antunes ,

Baku, Azerbaijão ,

5 December 2024

With a paltry promise of funds to the poorest nations, the conference in Baku approved of carbon trading as the main alternative, failed to advance against fossil fuels, and is leaving it to Belém to make the polluters pay

Planet in Collapse —

COP-29: Agribusiness bristles at central role in Brazil’s climate goals

Claudia Antunes ,

Baku, Azerbaijão ,

14 November 2024

The industry is hollowing out promises of zero deforestation and is trying to rein in the ambitions of the Climate Plan that will determine the role agriculture will play in cutting the country's emissions