From New York, this is Democracy Now.

The Climate Convention returns to the country. is democracy now.

The climate convention returns to the country where it was born.

Today, the eyes of the world turned to Belém with immense expectation.

For the first time in history, a climate cop will take place in the heart of the Amazon. In the global imagination, there is no greater symbol

of the environmental cause than the Amazon rainforest.

The UN Climate Summit opens in Belen, Brazil, as the Caribbean still recovering from

Hurricane Melissa, and as the Philippines is hit by back-to-back typhoons.

We'll speak with Yves Sanyo, the Philippines former climate negotiator, now a leading climate

activist.

He's in Belém.

And the Guardian's Nina Lackani, who's uncovered how thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to

UN climate talks over the years and then kept drilling.

Finally, Jalani Cobb, the dean of the Columbia School of Journalism.

His new collection of essays is titled Three or More is a Riot, Notes on How We Got Here.

I think a real thread that unites the book is democracy and its challenges. And the subtitle of the book is notes on how we got here.

And that's like the perennial question.

You know, how do we get here? How did this happen?

Or how do we arrive at a moment where we're having to consider this thing or that thing?

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now.

Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

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