Fewer global leaders than usual will gather in Brazil this week in advance of the Cop30 annual climate negotiations. It is yet another dispiriting indication that efforts to counter a worsening climate crisis, facing every country that backed the landmark Paris Agreement a decade ago, are weakening.

Optimism and commitments in “nationally-determined contributions” (NDCs) have given way to a row-back on pledges and

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