The U.S. is maintaining a presence at COP30, despite the Trump administration declining to send an official delegation to this year's climate conference in Brazil.

An existential question hangs over this year's COP30 summit in Brazil: what are the annual U.N. climate negotiations really for?

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — At the U.N. climate talks in Brazil, artificial intelligence is being cast as both a hero worthy of praise and a villain that needs policing.

No high-level US representatives will attend, and most nations failed to submit updated plans for cutting greenhouse gas emissions

Pope Leo criticized world governments on Monday for failing so far to slow global warming and called for a stronger response to the threat, as countries at the U.N. climate summit in Brazil's Amazon city of Belem entered the second week of negotiations with a goal to resolve their thorniest issues ahead of schedule.

Documents in circulation at Cop had placed the word gender in square brackets, indicating there was no consensus on what the word meant

COP30 arrived as youth leaders voiced frustration, climate anxiety rose among children, and WMO warned 2024 had seen record CO2 levels and global warming.

Despite aiming for net zero, the European Union did not formally support the call by 82 nations at the COP30 summit for a clear roadmap to phase out fossil fuels due to a lack of unanimous approval among member states.