The COP30 climate conference taking place this week near the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has been a hot, crowded, and occasionally chaotic event that, though well attended, comes at a time when many are doubting the narrative that the earth is facing a climate emergency.
The summit is the 30th annual Conference of the Parties (COP) that signed a 1992 United Nations climate treaty pledging, among other things, that rich countries take responsibility for planet-warming emissions and support poor countries in their struggle to cope with a changing climate.
