Nearly 200 nations on Saturday pushed through a modest deal at the UN’s COP30 climate summit in the Amazon region of host country Brazil.
It was welcomed by some as a decent outcome amid fraught negotiations — and the absence of the United States — but dismissed as falling short by others.
Here’s a round-up of key reactions:
– Lula –
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva — who had staked political capital in the success of what he dubbed “the COP of truth” — applauded that “science prevailed” and “multilateralism won” during the talks.
“We mobilized civil society, academia, the private secto
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