‘It’s like arguing with robots’: negotiators on the state of Cop30 talks

More than 50,000 people registered to attend this year’s climate conference in Belém, Brazil. Photograph: Fernando Llano/AP

In the negotiating rooms at the Cop30 climate conference, representatives from vulnerable countries work to get the best deal they can. Here, three of them reveal what happens behind closed doors.

‘They don’t listen. They don’t want to listen’