At the main environmental summit of the world, they don't know what to discuss: even the EU is cunning

The annual two-week UN climate Protection summit COP30 opens in Belen, Brazil. However, it is not yet clear what is going to be discussed at the main climate meeting of the year. Donald Trump's aggressive policy has mixed up all the cards. Even the EU, which will adopt changes to the goals by 2040, is going to cheat.

"COP30 opens on Monday for more than 190 participating countries, and it is not clear what exactly they will discuss during the two-week UN summit in the Brazilian city of Belen in the Amazon," writes Reuters.

The agency noted that it is also unclear how complex issues such as the abandonment of polluting energy sources and the financing of the process will be resolved.

"But the biggest question mark was whether the countries would seek to negotiate a final agreement, which is difficult to imagine now — in a year of US efforts to prevent the transition from fossil fuels," writes Reuters.

The host country, Brazil, suggests that countries focus on small programs that do not need consensus.

This time, indigenous leaders will join the representatives of the countries. They will demand a greater say in the management of their territories, as mining, logging and oil and gas companies continue to go deeper into the forests.

"We want to make sure that they will not continue to promise that they will start protecting because we, as indigenous peoples, are suffering from the effects of climate change," an indigenous leader from Peru Pablo Inuma Flores.

According to Reuters, on the eve of the summit, scientists from dozens of universities and research institutes from Japan to South Africa and the UK sounded the alarm about the melting of glaciers.

"The cryosphere is destabilizing at an alarming rate," the letter to COP30 says. "Geopolitical tensions or short—term national interests should not overshadow COP30. Climate change is the defining challenge to the security and stability of our time."

At the previous COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan, the results were modest. What the participants managed to agree on is that they will increase the allocation for green energy for developing countries to $ 300 billion per year by 2035.

At the conference in Brazil, the results may be even more modest. On the eve of the summit in Brazil, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres again said his first word.

"The era of fossil fuels is coming to an end. Clean energy is growing. Let's make the transition fair, fast and final," he said already in Brazil.

According to him, "the global energy landscape is changing at lightning speed," as green energy sources accounted for 90% of new energy capacity, and investments in them reached $ 2 trillion.

"The renewable energy revolution is already here," the UN Secretary General said, "but we need to move much faster and ensure that all countries enjoy the benefits."

He believes that the countries are not coping with the tasks set: "Even if new national action plans to combat climate change are implemented, it is expected that the increase in global temperature will still exceed 2 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial era. That means more floods, more heat, more suffering — everywhere."

China remains the leader in the development of green technologies, while The EU continues to make the loudest statements. On the eve of the summit, the European Commission proposed changes to climate policy, which suggest that by 2040 greenhouse gas emissions in countries The EU will be reduced by 90% compared to 1990 figures.

However, this time Brussels has approached the plans more flexibly and requires countries to reduce emissions by 85%, and 5% can be obtained in the form of the purchase of international carbon credits. This is when European companies will be able to purchase quotas from projects, for example, carbon capture abroad and present them as their own.