Analysis-Clamour for change inside the world's COP30 climate negotiations

FILE PHOTO: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev attend the opening of the Belem Climate Summit plenary session, as part of the COP30 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Belem, Brazil, November 6, 2025. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -An existential question hangs over this year's COP30 summit in Brazil: what are the annual U.N. climate negotiations really for?

More than 30 years of talks on global action to tackle climate change have led to progress, including surging renewable energy expansion and scaled-up climate funds - but not enough. Emissions keep building. Temperatures are still rising.