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Climate summit opens in Amazon without the three biggest polluters

Fractured talks highlight a deep divide over who pays as Indigenous leaders gain unprecedented access to U.N. venue.

Belém, Brazil hosts the COP30 climate summit this month.
Belém, Brazil hosts the COP30 climate summit this month. (AN/Sergio Moraes/COP30)

The World Leaders Climate Action Summit officially launched in Belém, Brazil, opening the political stage for the 30th U.N. climate summit, on the edge of the Amazon.

The summit began on Thursday under a cloud of scientific and geopolitical tension, focusing immediately on a push for action — the "Implementation COP" — that is both underfunded and politically fractured.

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