BELEM, Brazil (AP) — For each of the past several years, scientists, analysts and officials have been hoping that it would be the year when emissions from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas would stop going up.

They’ll have to wait another year.

For the second straight year, emissions from fossil fuels rose 1.1% in 2025, scientists reported Wednesday at United Nations climate negotiations. It’s not a big jump. It’s one of the smallest in recent non-pandemic years. But negotiators gathering for the COP30 conference on the edge of the Amazon are trying to curb warming global temperatures by getting fossil fuel emissions to stop rising and then plunge.

“It’s disappointing that we haven’t brought down carbon dioxide emissions,” said University of Exeter scientist Stephen Sitch, a memb

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