What the COP30 climate summit in the Amazon delivered for forests and Indigenous people

river in the foreground, Amazon rainforest in the background

photo by Paulo Brando

What the COP30 climate summit in the Amazon delivered for forests and Indigenous people

river in the foreground, Amazon rainforest in the background

Brazil insisted on hosting this year’s COP30 climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem to put rainforests at the heart of negotiations on how to curb global warming.

But as delegates from almost every country concluded tense talks under the rainforest’s humid heat, the outcome for trees and their guardians, though unprecedented, was bittersweet.

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