The Cop30 climate conference in Brazil has a huge number of country pavilions, where national delegations hold panel events and receptions that are used to represent where their country currently stands in fighting the climate crisis.
The US has no official national pavilion this year – with Donald Trump labelling the climate crisis a “con job” – but China, the world’s top polluter, has a massive plot right in front of the entrance to the Cop30 site. The design reflects confidence in the country’s ambition, with posters profiling giant state energy companies that are rolling out the use of renewable energy at breakneck speed, and others detailing the country’s recently-announced pledge to reduce emissions by 7 per cent to 10 per cent by 2035. There are also long queues at the entrance for a calligraphy artist signing people’s names in a traditional script, and several editions of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s ‘The Governance of China’ on display.’
