Caught between saving forests and drilling for oil, COP30 puts Lula’s contradictions on display
• 2025年11月7日 上午6:32
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Despite Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s much-vaunted ambitions to lead the fight against climate change and the deforestation that has ravaged the Amazon, Lula continues to look to the country’s oil industry to build Brazil’s wealth. He argues that the money generated from oil exports will help finance the country’s accelerating transition to cleaner energy.
Fighting climate change with imaginative methods in East-Timor
• 上午10:02
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As countries gather in Brazil for the COP 30 climate change conference, FRANCE 24 travels to East Timor, where global warming is wreaking havoc on the fishing industry. The isolated island nation and its 1.4 million people face coastal erosion, rising se
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‘Protect the Amazon’: Climate protesters demand urgent action at COP30
• 上午9:33
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Thousands of people thronged the streets of the Amazonian city of Belem in Brazil on Saturday, urging COP30 negotiators to take urgent action against climate change and halt the devastating deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest. “We are witnessing a mas
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Delhi’s pollution is a crisis of democracy as much as public health, citizens say
• 上午8:18
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Citizens in the Indian capital of New Delhi say that the government’s inaction against the pollution-driven public health crisis signals both a struggling democracy and hypocrisy, as India leads talks on climate action in the Global South at COP30.
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