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Science 10 Nov 2025

COP30: Trump and many leaders are skipping it, so does the summit still have a point?

The US president is notably absent from these UN climate talks, as are other world leaders, all of which prompts questions about the purpose of COP today.

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There is a photograph, taken ten years ago in Paris, that today seems like something of a relic. In it, dozens of men and women line up in dark suits, in front of an enormous sign that reads COP21 Paris. Far off to the right is the then US President Barack Obama, deep in conversation with someone who. Is cut off from the frame - because there were so many leaders lining up that day that. It was difficult for the photographer to capture them all at once. What a far cry from the family photograph taken on Thursday with this year's line-up at the COP30 summit in Brazil. Xi and Modi were no-shows, along with the leaders of around 160 other countries. In fact, the Trump administration has exited the process entirely and has said it will not send any high-level officials this year.

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COP30: Trump and many leaders are skipping it, so does the summit still have a point?

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