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The real failure on climate didn’t happen in Brazil

For the true source of COP30’s troubles, look to the leadership of the biggest polluters.

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Climate conferences will fall short of expectations so long as governments of major emitters baulk at limiting pollution from the likes of coal-fired power plants.

Climate conferences will fall short of expectations so long as governments of major emitters baulk at limiting pollution from the likes of coal-fired power plants.

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David Fickling

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Another climate conference, another failed climate conference.

That’s the sense you might get from the anguished statements emerging at the close of the

COP30 meeting

in the Brazilian city of Belem at the weekend. Hopes that the final communique would incorporate a road map to transition away from fossil fuels were dashed. A planned US$125 billion (S$163 billion) fund for forest protection ended up with just US$6 billion or so committed.

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