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Brazil's environment minister, Marina Silva, has urged all countries to have the courage to address the need for a fossil fuel phaseout, calling the drawing up of a roadmap for it an ethical response to the climate crisis. She emphasised, however, that the process would be voluntary for those governments that wished to participate, and self-determined. The issue is one of the most controversial at the Cop30 summit in Brazil, with countries fighting over whether and how such a roadmap can be discussed.

We can't remain silent while our islands are sinking. We can't remain silent while our people are suffering, Talia said. Tuvalu is a nation of atolls and reef islands in the south Pacific and is considered acutely vulnerable to sea level rise and fiercer storms caused by the climate crisis. The US has withdrawn from the Paris climate agreement, and I think that's a shameful thing to do, he said.

Thousands marched in the Brazilian city of Belem on Saturday, as the UN's COP30 climate conference marks its halfway point. Organizers dubbed the event the "Great People's March." The mass mobilization comes after two Indigenous-led protests that disrupted the climate conference earlier in the week. On Saturday, demonstrators marched 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) through the city. Environmental activists were joined by Indigenous people holding banners, flags, chanting slogans, and blasting music from speakers.

Countries must recognise the demarcation of Indigenous lands as a key component of tackling the climate crisis, and civil society must help in the defence of such lands against mining interests, Brazil's minister for Indigenous peoples has said. Sonia Guajajara, a longtime Indigenous activist before being appointed a minister by President Lula da Silva, said: [Among the goals of the Cop30 summit is] a request that countries recognise the demarcation of Indigenous lands as climate policy.

In envisioning a green future, European politicians failed to account sufficiently for the social impact of the energy transition. The EU's efforts to engage with and compensate those who stood to lose fell short. Regions and workers reliant on carbon-intensive industries, disadvantaged social groups and poorer countries disproportionately affected by the climate crisis and regressive economic consequences of the transition were all hit. Criticism of these failings is valid, but the EU undeniably backed its commitments with action, putting its money where its mouth was.

More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belem, significantly outnumbering every single country's delegation apart from the host Brazil, new analysis has found. One in every 25 participants at this year's UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to the analysis by the Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO) coalition, raising serious questions about the corporate capture and credibility of the annual Cop negotiations.

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I think this event will be one of the biggest wins for the Global South. When we are here, listening to the COP president or Brazil's president, you can feel that something truly promising is happening.

Delegates from around the world are expected to disagree over how to tackle climate change and who should pay. The 30th annual United Nations climate change conference (COP30) begins on Monday in the Brazilian city of Belem. About 50,000 people from more than 190 countries, including diplomats and climate experts, are expected to attend the 11-day meeting in the Amazon. Delegates are expected to discuss the climate crisis and its devastating impacts, including the rising frequency of extreme weather.

Two cruise ships are bobbing quietly in the specially expanded port near the city of Belem in northern Brazil on the edge of the Amazon. They will serve as alternative accommodation for more than 10,000 participants at this year's climate conference. Between 40,000 and 50,000 people, including heads of state and government from almost 200 countries, are expected to attend the 30th UN Climate Change Conference, COP30, to discuss measures for greater climate protection.

Speaking on the eve of the UN's climate summit, Ed Miliband said it was the cause progressives could rally around, because most people recognise populist parties have got it wrong. We're not going to give up and the progress that we've already made should give us heart, he said. Giving up would be a total betrayal. Defeatism never took a single of a fraction of a degree of global warming. It never created a single job.

As a battle-scarred veteran of the war against nature, Garo Batmanian has spent 45 years trying to defend the Amazon rainforest. For most of that time, the resistance he leads has been outfunded and outgunned by those who profit from destruction. The most Batmanian felt he could achieve was to slow the advance of the chainsaws and tractors. But the director-general of Brazil's forest service feels there could be a chance at the Cop30 climate summit in Belem, Brazil,

Under the terms of the 2015 agreement, world leaders pledged to limit the average global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and pursue efforts to cap it at 1.5 degrees. Countries also agreed to renew and communicate their targets every five years. The latest submission deadline was earlier this year, and the pressure is now on for states to announce their latest commitments to moving away from fossil fuels.

This is a really important moment to illustrate that Trump does not represent the entirety, or even anywhere near a majority, of us, said Collin Rees, US program manager at the environmental non-profit Oil Change International, who will attend the annual UN climate conference, known as Cop30. The negotiations will take place in the Brazilian city of Belem near the Amazon delta.

With the once-familiar pillars of the old world order crumbling and the US stepping away from action on climate crisis, it falls to others to assume global environmental leadership. Those leaders who understand the urgency should seize the opportunity afforded by Brazil hosting Cop30 this month to build a coalition of committed countries determined to turn back the climate deniers.

The move has triggered sharp criticism by environmental activists ahead of the COP30 UN climate talks in Brazil next month. The Equatorial Margin deposit off Brazil's coast is believed to be rich in oil and gas. The company was granted the license to drill in the area after a five-year battle. The country's environmental agency IBAMA said the approval came after a "rigorous environmental licensing process."

The task before the Brazilian presidency goes beyond even the most challenging moments in the 30-year history of the UN climate process. This year's summit in Belem will not only test the durability of the Paris Agreement, now a decade oldit will test whether the world can still come together to confront global threats at a time of fracture and distrust.