This day next week, world leaders will gather in the city of Belem on the banks of the Amazon to start the Cop30 climate negotiations. It will take place under circumstances unlike any other previous Cop, where for the first time a big country seems intent on wrecking the consensus around what needs to be done.
The week before last, the US administration was able to block a big initiative at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) which was designed to support the switch to clean fuels for ships on the high seas. One IMO veteran described their tactics: “These people, they’re behaving like gangsters. The US delegates are pulling rude faces when others are speaking, challenging the rule of the chairman, accusing the IMO secretariat
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