March 11, 2025 11:45 AM

COP30 president cites limits of global climate summits

After decades of United Nations climate summits, the model of gathering world leaders to negotiate agreements under complex rules is starting to show its limits, said the president of the next such summit, Brazilian diplomat Andre Correa do Lago. "The Paris Agreement is working, but there is much more to do," he wrote in a letter released on Monday outlining his presidency's vision for the COP30 summit in the Amazon city of Belem in November. Climate negotiators, he said, should be sel...