World leaders arrive in Brazil ahead of COP30

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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From the BBC World Service: The summit is part of an effort to show that the climate crisis remains a top priority, although some big names won't be in attendance, including leaders of China, India, and the U.S. What can the conference achieve without them? Then, China has announced it's easing tariffs and export controls on U.S. firms following last week's seemingly productive meeting between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump. And in Shanghai, foreign businesses are being welcomed to a major trade import expo.

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0:16.2	World leaders arrive in Brazil for the climate summit, but how green are the host's credentials?
0:20.8	Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World. World leaders arrive in Brazil for the climate summit, but how green are the host's credentials?
0:25.6	Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.
0:27.6	I'm William Lee Adams. Good morning.
0:33.2	World leaders are gathering in Brazil ahead of the United Nations COP 30 climate conference.
0:39.6	It's part of an effort to show that climate change remains a top priority, as the BBC's Justin Rowlett explains.
0:47.5	Faith in the UN climate process is at a low. Only a few dozen heads of state are expected to attend today's summit.
0:55.6	The leaders of China, India and the United States, together responsible for roughly half of global emissions, will not be present.
1:02.2	The US is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement entirely, yet there are glimmers of progress.
1:08.7	Renewable energy technologies are being deployed around the world faster than anyone anticipated a decade ago. And the global rise in CO2 emissions has nearly leveled off.
1:13.7	Justin Rowlatt. The meeting is happening just as Brazil has given its state oil firm a license to conduct
1:19.6	exploratory oil drilling in the sea off the Amazon, despite environmental concerns about the project.
1:25.9	The BBC's Georgina Raynard has more, Georgina High.
1:29.1	Hello.
1:29.9	How do leaders reconcile that reality with Brazil hosting this global climate summit?
1:34.7	This contrast somewhat with the expectation and the hope that many people expressed three years ago
1:40.0	when it was said this conference would be in the Amazon.
1:42.6	At that time, I remember President Lula
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