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COP30 opens in Brazil with UN plea to bridge fractured consensus - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

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    16% Somewhat Right

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says that overshooting 1.5 degrees is now inevitable.
50% : The COP30 Climate Summit has opened in Brazil with a message from the United Nations that countries seek cooperating rather than battle over competing priorities that continues to fracture the consensus seeking approach of the gathering.
50% : Over 190 countries participating in this year summit, the urgency is palpable after the latest UN Emissions Gap Report found that under the Paris Climate Agreement, available new climate pledges have only slightly lowered global temperature rise over the course of this century, leaving the world heading for a serious escalation of climate risks and damages.
50% : Every dollar invested in renewables creates three times more jobs than a dollar invested in fossil fuels - and clean energy jobs now outnumber fossil fuel jobs worldwide."
47% : Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Simon Stiell says the main aim of COP 30 is not to fight one another, but to fight climate crisis together. Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva says, "It's time to inflict another defeat on the deniers.
40% : " The United States is boycotting the gathering given a shift in America's approach after President Donald Trump made his views on climate change clear at the UN General Assembly this September.
39% : Host country Brazil brokered a deal on the agenda for the two-week summit in the Amazon city of Belem, deflecting attempts by developing country negotiating blocs to shoehorn contentious issues like climate finance and carbon taxes into the talks.

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