Key World Leaders Skip Climate Meeting in Blow to COP30 Summit

World leaders are set to deliver a message of solidarity and renewed resolve to address global warming days before the start of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, despite lackluster attendance and the erosion of a key goal to curb rising temperatures.

It’s a challenging backdrop for the more than 50 heads of state and government ministers expected in the Amazonian city of Belém on Thursday and Friday. Gone is the confidence and sense of grand ambition that united nearly 200 nations a decade ago, with the adoption of the landmark Paris Agreement. Left in its place is a gnawing sense of urgency and the hard ...