BRAZIL: When part of a makeshift structure at the summit venue briefly went up in flames last Thursday, many brushed it aside as an accident. But by the end of the two-week conference in the Amazon, that moment of smoke and confusion felt oddly symbolic. Expectations rose quickly, and the outcomes faded just as fast.

Delegates who had arrived in Belém with hopes of a turning point in climate action left instead with a bundle of political signals, draft frameworks and half-finished ideas.

The world’s largest rainforest offered a powerful backdrop, but the summit’s closing moments made clear that climate diplomacy is still struggling to match the speed of the crisis.

Brazil called the outcome the Mutirão Package. In Brazil, a mutirão is a collective effort, of people coming together to t

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