""It's a wrap ... Don't forget to buy an 'i survived Belém' shirt," reads the opening line of an email I got Saturday, the final day of highly anticipated United Nations climate negotiations in Belém, Brazil. The email was sent from Shravya Jain-Conti, the US climate diplomacy lead at the Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC), who's been following these events for years. While she sometimes has tips on where to snag a cup of coffee along with her email updates to reporters, the T-shirt tip was a first as far as I've seen."
"I've been mulling over these negotiations since last year, mapping out potential funding opportunities to make a trip to Belém to report on the ground. I resigned myself to covering the news remotely from the US rather than trekking into the Amazon pregnant during a federal government shutdown. My fear of missing out dissipated last week when the UN event venue caught fire, just before a lackluster end to what some had hoped might be the most consequential round of international talks on climate change since the 2015 Paris agreement."
COP30 convened in Belém, Brazil, with delegates from more than 190 nations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Organizers billed the meeting as the "Implementation COP" to focus on carrying out previous commitments to stop global warming and transition away from fossil fuels. The two-week conference concluded with hemming and hawing about transitioning from fossil fuels and produced a lackluster outcome on implementation. A planned in-person reporting trip was canceled due to pregnancy and a federal government shutdown. A fire at the event venue complicated the final days of the talks and heightened uncertainty about progress.
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