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The Global Climate Leadership Vacuum

The United States is largely absent from the United Nations climate negations in Brazil. So who is stepping up?

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A lobby of the COP30 United Nations climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
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The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.

The environmental group gave up its singular focus on climate change for a broader agenda. The ensuing internal strife left it weakened as it takes on the Trump administration.

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The Sierra Club’s Washington offices in 2023.
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Climate Diplomacy and Hardball Tactics

With this year’s global climate summit opening in Brazil, we offer a glimpse of how the Trump administration sometimes operates behind closed doors.

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The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, at the climate summit in Belém, Brazil, on Thursday.
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Brazil Proposes a New Type of Fund to Protect Tropical Forests

The multibillion-dollar fund would essentially pay countries to keep forests standing, hoping for success where earlier forest-protection ideas have struggled.

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Morning mist in Carajás National Forest, Brazil. The proposal comes as global climate talks start this week in Brazil.
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