Three developments have set the stage for the 30th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which will start at Brazil’s Amazonian city Belém on November 10.

At the UN General Assembly, President Donald Trump returned to climate denialism, dismissing climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” – nine months after he withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement again. Microsoft Czar Bill Gates has penned a memo noting that it would be better to focus on improving health and prosperity to fight the consequences of climate change as people would continue to live even after emission cut targets would be breached and the earth would become warmer. And, thirdly, Azerbaijan and Brazil – the COP presidents of last year and this year – have rel

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