Cop30 live: Brazil aims for early agreement on ‘big four’ issues

In an unorthodox move, the Brazilian organisers have hatched an unorthodox plan to wrap up the trickiest topics at the climate summit by this evening, two days earlier than normal

For more on China’s position at this Cop my colleagues Fiona Harvey and Jonathan Watts had this story overnight

Carbon Brief has a roundup of news from Cop30 including this, from Politico, on China’s top envoy criticising EU targets and Trump’s “bad example.”

China’s climate envoy Liu Zhenmin has told Politico at Cop30 that the EU and other developed countries should achieve net-zero before 2040. However, China and the EU “could step up their cooperation” on climate issues, Liu is described as saying, according to the outlet. He also states that the absence of the US “really creates a very bad example”, but stresses there is “no real replacement” for the US in fighting climate change, the outlet adds.

Todd Stern, former US climate envoy, tells the Shanghai-based news outlet the Paper that the participation of some US Democrat leaders at COP30, “while it may not have the same impact as the personal involvement of the US president, it is still very important and sufficient to demonstrate to the world: the US has not abandoned climate action; it remains ‘all in’”.