Cop30 live: crucial climate talks begin in Brazil as hosts insist summit must lead to ‘implementation’

Ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries have gathered in the Amazonian city of Belem, with Brazil insisting this will be “the Cop of implementation”.The opening plenary is starting now. Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan’s minister for ecology and the president of the previous COP in Baku has passed the baton to Brazil.He stressed the importance of building on the climate finance commitments made last year, when wealthy nations agreed to provide $300bn annually