Sriram Madhusoodanan

Dear reader, As I write this message, I’m sitting in my home office in Western Montana, looking out my window at the gray skies and fallen leaves that portend the beginnings of winter. And yet, my spirit (and indeed my jetlagged brain) are thousands of miles away in tropical Belém, Brazil, where the UN climate talks are entering the final stretch.  And so, I am thinking of the many US Climate Action Network (USCAN) members who are still at the talks – staying up late at night to comb through...

COP30, taking place November 10–21 in Belém, Brazil, marks three decades of global climate negotiations. For the first time ever, the United States will be absent from the table. 

This blog post is co-authored with Kate Yeo, USCAN Policy and Communications Coordinator. In a few days, 50,000 delegates from around the world will descend on Belém, Brazil for the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30). COP30 marks three decades since the first COP, and 10 years since the Paris Agreement pledged to limit global warming to 1.5°C – a threshold of devastating global warming.  That promise is hanging by a thread. Global emissions are higher , our planet hotter , and our...