Belem climate summit: Bridging North-South divide will be uphill task for Brazil

Brazil is leaving no stone unturned to make Cop30 remarkable, but it must unite the Global North and South to forge new cooperation against their common enemy—climate change

Can the climate change summit in Belem, Brazil, bring rich (North) and poor (South) countries together to shape policies? The world is gathering at the 30th Conference of the Parties (Cop) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Belem, Brazil, from November 10 to 21. Among other substantive agendas, the major focus in Belem would be to minimise the deep distrust between developed and developing member countries, which emerged at the Baku climate meeting (Cop29) last year.

In Brazilian President Lula’s conviction that ‘Cop30 in Belém will be the moment of truth and science’. Thus, all eyes are on Brazil’s presidency of Cop30 to deliver a mandate that will maintain trust in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, faith in multilateralism, and belief in the Cop process itself. Is it achievable?

Read Complete Article @ FirstPost, November 17, 2025.