At the halfway point of annual United Nations climate negotiations in Brazil, it appears the talks may do more than just focus on implementing past promises, as some observers had expected. Several nations have pressed during the first week to be more ambitious.
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Now scientists are trying something newWashington resident is infected with a different type of bird flu8 innovative gifts you didn't know you neededEstadounidenses naturalizados creían estar seguros, pero políticas migratorias de Trump crean dudasClimateADDS NAME - Rachelle Junsay, center, stands with other activists participating in a youth climate demonstration during the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. André Corrêa do Lago, COP30 president, center, speaks at a news conference next to Ana Toni, COP30 CEO, left, and Ambassador Liliam Chagas, director of the Climate Department, Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, center, reacts during a plenary session at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. Activists participate in a climate protest during the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. An Indigenous group blocks an entrance to the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit as attendees walk around them, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. ADDS NAME - Rachelle Junsay, center, stands with other activists participating in a youth climate demonstration during the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. ADDS NAME - Rachelle Junsay, center, stands with other activists participating in a youth climate demonstration during the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. André Corrêa do Lago, COP30 president, center, speaks at a news conference next to Ana Toni, COP30 CEO, left, and Ambassador Liliam Chagas, director of the Climate Department, Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. André Corrêa do Lago, COP30 president, center, speaks at a news conference next to Ana Toni, COP30 CEO, left, and Ambassador Liliam Chagas, director of the Climate Department, Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, center, reacts during a plenary session at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, center, reacts during a plenary session at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. Activists participate in a climate protest during the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. Activists participate in a climate protest during the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. An Indigenous group blocks an entrance to the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit as attendees walk around them, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. An Indigenous group blocks an entrance to the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit as attendees walk around them, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. , the Brazilian hosts weren’t looking for big end-of-session pronouncements on lofty goals. This conference was supposed to hyperfocus on “implementation” ofof heat-trapping gases, on too little money to help nations wracked by climate change, on putting teeth into phasing out coal, oil and gas. Because of that pressure to do more — including from Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — the diplomat chairing the talks said Saturday he’ll consider a big-picture, end-of-negotiations communiqué, sometimes known as a decision or cover text. “I think things have changed, which is a very good thing,” said veteran observer Jean Su of the Center for Biological Diversity. “So I think there’s momentum that we will get some type of decision text, and our hope is that in particular there’s going to be some commitment on phasing out fossil fuels.” “I would say that what’s at stake now is probably higher than the last several COPs because you’re looking at an ambition gap,″ said former Philippine negotiator Jasper Inventor, international program director at Greenpeace International. “There’s a lot of expectation, there’s a lot of excitement here, but there’s also a lot of political signals that’s been sent by President Lula.” “We’re at the middle of the COP, and at the middle of COP is usually where the negotiators stare each other eye-to-eye. It’s almost like a staring contest,” Inventor said. “But next week, this is where the negotiations need to happen, where political decisions are made by the ministers.”, which is mostly voluntary, these end statements grab headlines and set global tone but have limited power. The last few COP end statements have made still-unfulfilled pledges for rich countries to give money to poor nations to cope with climate change and the world to phase out fossil fuels.Key among those issues is the idea of telling nations to go back to the drawing board on what experts consider inadequate climate-fighting plans submitted this year. In the 2015 Paris agreement, which is being celebrated here on its 10th anniversary, nations are supposed to have submitted climate-fighting, emissions-curbing plans every five years. So far 116 of 193 countries have filed theirs this year, but what they promised isn’t much. United Nations and Climate Action Tracker, a group of scientists, calculates that these new pledges barely reduced future projections for Earth’s warming. Even if the world does all it promises, Earth would be about seven-tenths of a degree Celsius above the Paris goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, the groups estimated. So small island nations, led by Palau, asked that this conference confront the gap between what’s planned in national pledges and what’s needed to keep the world from hitting the temperature danger zone. That’s not on the agenda for these talks. Nor are specific details on how to fulfill last year’s pledge by rich nations to provide $300 billion annually in climate financial aid. So when nations early on wanted to address these issues, COP President André Corrêa do Lago, a veteran Brazilian diplomat, set up special small confabs to try to decide if the controversial topics should be discussed.“The parties will decide how they want to proceed,” do Lago said at a Saturday evening news conference. Given what countries are saying and past history that usually means a final end-of-COP message to the world, several experts said. In a casual exchange with a reporter about how the conference is going, COP President do Lago said: “Eh, could be better but not as bad it could be.”U.N. General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock, the former German foreign minister who has been to 10 of these sessions, told The Associated Press Saturday morning before the evening’s session that she saw “new momentum” in Belem. “We can fight the climate crisis only together if we commit to a strong mitigation target,” she said. “This means also transitioning away from fossil fuels, investing into renewable energy.” Two years ago in Dubai, the world agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels,” but last year no mention of that was made and there’ve been no details on how or when to do this.for “a road map for humanity to overcome, in a just and planned way, its dependence on fossil fuels, reverse deforestation, and mobilize the resources needed to do so.” “I think what we have before us are the ingredients of a potential high-ambition package for the outcome of this conference,” Iskander Erzini Vernoit, executive director of the Moroccan IMAL Initiative for Climate and Development, said.twice this week with demands to be further included in the U.N. talks, despite this conference’s promotion as the “Indigenous Peoples’ COP.” The COP so far “was a testament that unfortunately, for Indigenous peoples to be heard, they actually need to be disruptive,” said Aya Khourshid, an Egyptian-Palestinian member of A Wisdom Keepers Delegation, a group of Indigenous people from around the world. Indigenous people are putting a lot of energy “to be in this space but to not necessarily be given a platform or voice at the decision table with the ministers and those who are in power,” said Whaia, a Ngāti Kahungunu Wisdom Keeper. “There’s an imbalance here at COP30,” she said. “There’s the privileged and the not-so lucky who don’t get a say on what’s actually going on in their own home.”The Associated Press’ climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP’sThis story was produced as part of the 2025 Climate Change Media Partnership, a journalism fellowship organized by Internews’ Earth Journalism Network and the Stanley Center for Peace and Security.Borenstein is an Associated Press science writer, covering climate change, disasters, physics and other science topics. He is based in Washington, D.C.Walling covers the intersections of climate change and agriculture in the Midwest and beyond for The Associated Press. She is based in Chicago.
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