The United Nations emphasised the need for greater cooperation among countries and a more solution-oriented approach to tackling climate change on the opening day of its two-week-long climate summit, COP30—which the United States chose to skip this year.

"In this arena of COP30, your job here is not to fight one another – your job here is to fight this climate crisis, together," UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell said on the first day of the summit. He warned that those opting out of climate action risk stagnation while “other economies surge ahead.”

Addressing representatives from 195 countries gathered in Belém, Brazil, Stiell stressed that cooperation is critical, claiming that the Paris Agreement is “delivering real progress” a decade after its adoption at COP21.

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