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The Guardian - UK
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Ed Miliband

We delivered a clear message at Cop30: the delayers and defeatists are losing the climate fight

Andre Correa do Lago, president of Cop30, hugs Marina Silva, Brazil’s environment minister, at the Cop30 conference in Belém, Brazil, 22 November 2025.
Andre Correa do Lago, president of Cop30, hugs Marina Silva, Brazil’s environment minister, at the Cop30 conference in Belém, Brazil, 22 November 2025. Photograph: Pablo Porciúncula/AFP/Getty Images

Sweaty, maddening, sleepless. That’s what it was like to be part of Cop30 in Brazil. And yet more than 190 countries came together in the rainforest of the Amazon and reaffirmed their faith in multilateralism, the Paris agreement and the need to redouble our efforts to keep global warming to 1.5C.

We went to Cop because working with other countries to tackle the climate crisis is the only way to protect our home and way of life. We know the UK produces just 1% of emissions, which is why, as the prime minister said in Belém, our government is “all-in” on working with others to reduce the remaining 99%.

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