Step aside, COP29. How Brazil is looking to supercharge COP30
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Plans are already underway for COP30 to pick up the baton-- and tackle COP29's unfinished business. Next year’s climate conference is set to take place in Belem, Brazil, a gateway to the Amazon rainforest. André Corrêa do Lago, Brazil’s Secretary for Climate, Energy and the Environment tells Akshat Rathi that although holding a global summit in Belem poses logistical challenges, the symbolism of the location holds “fantastic political power.”
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- Past episode about Azerbaijan’s challenges with hosting COP29 in Baku
- Past episode with Brazil's chief climate negotiator, Liliam Chagas, about the viability of a fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty
- Past episode with ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods, about his decision to attend COP29
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