The Latest Breaking News from COP

Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a fractured world: proof that nations can still unite to confront a global crisis.

This year's United Nations climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the environmentally vulnerable Amazon.

High accommodation costs at climate summit in Belem are pricing out some developing countries and media outlets

Government rules out using taxpayer funds to buy off competing bid as Pacific leaders urge Turkey to step aside as an ‘act of good faith’

With two months to go, the "COP30 Hotel," spruced up and renamed after the UN climate conference due to take place in the Amazonian city of Belem in November, has zero bookings.

In Belém, motels known for sex chairs and mirrored ceilings are stripping risqué features for climate negotiators

How to get the big emitters on board for Cop30? Plus: the ouch factor

In Belem, the UN climate summit will bring global leaders face to face with the harsh realities of climate change and inequality.

Energy and climate issues are front and centre for both sides of politics. The government is struggling with pushback from some regional communities against the rollout of transmission lines and wind farms. At the same time, it will soon have to produce its 2035 target under the Paris climate agreement.