The US didn’t send a delegation to the COP30 conference in Brazil, reflecting the Trump administration’s nihilistic attitude to the climate crisis. In its absence, the other big industrial powers once again postponed making hard but essential choices.

The large Guamá River and forty-two metropolitan islands frame the city of Belém, which is known as the gateway to the Amazon rainforest. Belém is shaped by the diversity of its indigenous and Afro-Brazilian cultures, as well as by the daily challenges posed by climate change, including severe flooding and extreme heat.

Ten years after the Paris Climate Agreement, in which country leaders pledged to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) was held here for the first time this month.

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