CLIMATE JUSTICE: The World Meets in Belem
The world is heaving a sigh of relief that the current US Government is not sending a high-level delegation to the UN climate summit in Belem, Brazil, a city at the mouth of the Amazon River and close to the all-important Amazon rainforest. The US would have tried to scuttle any climate action, which Trump calls a “green scam”.
We should not despair. Progress towards a greener economy has been made. “This year, the world is set to invest a record $2.2 trillion in low-carbon energy technologies like solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. That’s twice as much as will be spent investing in oil, gas and coal technologies.”
But will the progress be enough? The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is now considered unrealistic: we are headed to a 2.7-degree level, and can expect more heat waves, fires and storms. But the effort must continue, with or without the US.
Source: The New York Times, 11/7/25