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CX Daily: Global Climate Summit Ends in Disarray as U.S. Absence Upends Talks

Published: Dec. 11, 2025  9:00 a.m.  GMT+8
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Brazilian artist Mudano collaborated with Greenpeace to write “COP30: Rising for Forests” in transparent ink smeared with ash collected during a forest fire in the Amazon. The piece was a call for countries to take action to protect tropical forests. Photo: Greenpeace
Brazilian artist Mudano collaborated with Greenpeace to write “COP30: Rising for Forests” in transparent ink smeared with ash collected during a forest fire in the Amazon. The piece was a call for countries to take action to protect tropical forests. Photo: Greenpeace

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In Depth: Global Climate Summit Ends in Disarray as U.S. Absence Upends Talks

(Belém, Brazil) — A decade ago, a landmark joint statement on climate change by the U.S. and China in Beijing paved the way for the historic Paris Agreement. The 2015 accord united 178 nations around a goal of holding the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, while pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5 C.

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