Brazil has chosen a veteran diplomat for the top job at the UN COP30 climate summit as the country attempts to balance action on global warming with the US’s exit from the Paris climate agreement under President Trump.
André Corrêa do Lago, previously an ambassador to Japan and India, will have the role of president-designate at the world’s most important climate negotiations to be held in November in the Amazonian city of Belém.
His appointment came just a day after Donald Trump said the US would withdraw from the Paris agreement, the landmark UN accord aimed at limit the global temperature rise. The US is the only country to leave the accord, quitting during President Trump’s first term in the White House.