Attendees listen to COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago during a plenary session of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para state, Brazil on November 21, 2025. Colombia said Friday that the UN climate talks "cannot end" without a roadmap for the global phaseout of fossil fuels after it was omitted from the latest draft agreement unveiled by COP30 host Brazil. -- Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP
BELEM, Brazil (AP): With a spotlight on the Brazilian Amazon, where agriculture drives a significant chunk of deforestation and planet-warming emissions, many of the activists, scientists and government leaders at United Nations climate talks have a beef. They want more to be done to transform the world's food system.
Protesters gathered outside a new space at the talks, the industry-sponsored "Agrizone,” to call for a transition toward a more grassroots food system, even as hundreds of lobbyists for big agriculture companies are attending the talks.
