World leaders face Amazon reckoning on a decade of climate promises

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The two-day Belem Climate Summit takes place in the humid port city at the mouth of the Amazon River - a symbolic prelude to the UN's Cop30 conference that begins there next week.
54% : The first global stocktake at Cop28 showed the world is "significantly off track", while the UN Secretary-General has said overshooting the 1.5C goal is "inevitable" unless countries "change course".
54% : Renewable energy and electric vehicles, while already saving lives and creating jobs, is not happening fast enough, experts warn. Record surge in CO2 puts world on track for more long-term warming Can trust survive?
48% : The European Union agreed on Wednesday to a weakened 2040 climate goal after all-night talks in Brussels, keeping its 90 percent emissions cut headline but allowing countries to offset up to 10 percent of that target through foreign carbon credits and delay key measures.
44% : A UN Adaptation Gap Report last week found the world will need to spend about $310 billion a year by 2035 to prepare for worsening floods, droughts and heatwaves - roughly 12 times current spending levels.

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