Conference of the Parties (COP)

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? U.S. to skip major climate conference

Illustration: Maura Losch/Axios

The Trump administration won't send any senior officials to COP30, the upcoming UN climate summit in Belém, Brazil, a senior administration official tells Axios' Ben Geman. "The U.S. is not sending any high-level representatives to COP30," the official said. "The president is directly engaging with leaders around the world on energy issues, which you can see from the historic trade deals and peace deals that all have a significant focus on energy partnerships." The leaders' summit will be held Nov. 6-7, with negotiations running from Nov. 10-21. COP stands for "Conference of the Parties." Go deeper.

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COP30 Begins

The world’s largest global climate meeting—the 30th Conference of the Parties—begins today in Belem, Brazil. Nearly 200 countries will send representatives; the US will not send an official delegation.  COP30 comes 10 years after 195 countries adopted the US-led Paris Agreement, in which each committed to taking steps to reduce global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Since then, countries have largely failed to meet commitments, and emissions have continued to rise, albeit less quickly. If warming continues at its current pace, researchers project global temperatures will rise 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, down from the up to 3.8 degrees Celsius predicted a decade ago. The UN expects global warming to cross the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold by 2035. President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris deal in both terms, citing the economic burden, including billions of dollars in donations to developing countries. PS: See what we've learned about climatology via 1440 Topics here.

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Cop30 delegates ‘far apart’ on phasing out fossil fuels and cutting carbon

Climate crisis talks look likely to stretch well into the weekend in Brazil, with countries still far apart on the crucial issues of phasing out fossil fuels and cutting carbon.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/21/cop30-delegates-far-apart-on-phasing-out-fossil-fuels-and-cutting-carbon?

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Here’s what’s next in the fight to curb climate change, now that talks in Brazil have ended

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — After an agreement from U.N. climate talks in the Amazon that fell short of many nations’ expectations, experts found some bright spots alongside weighty reasons for worry in the fight against global warming.

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-cop30-belem-brazil-united-nations-1e4a535b5416f59deae0303ebd422288?

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COP31 Begins

The United Nations’ annual climate summit, known as the Conference of the Parties or COP, kicked off its 31st gathering yesterday in Antalya, Turkey. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries will participate in the event; the US did not send an official federal delegation for the second consecutive year.  COP31 commenced days after a European climate monitoring service reported that last month was the warmest October ever recorded. It also marked the third straight month to exceed the Paris Agreement's 1.5-degree Celsius warming threshold. Over the next two weeks, delegates will push countries to honor their previous emissions-reduction pledges and work to provide developing nations with funds to adapt to a warming climate. They will also try to resolve deadlocks over how to transition away from fossil fuels.  Those efforts come as a recent UN report found the US drove one-third of the rise in global emissions last year, outpacing every other major economy. See an interactive visualization of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide here.