{"id":276747,"date":"2025-11-22T05:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/276747\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T05:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:59:13","slug":"fire-disrupts-cop30-climate-summit-in-brazil-dw-11-20-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/276747\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire disrupts COP30 climate summit in Brazil \u2013 DW \u2013 11\/20\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire forced organizers of the UN&#8217;s <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/cop30-brazil\/t-74555946\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">COP30<\/a> climate talks in Belem in northern <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/brazil\/t-19068233\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a> to empty the site on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reporters and other attendees were sent a circular note saying there was a &#8220;fire incident in Zone B,&#8221; and asking them to &#8220;evacuate the venue immediately.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A siren sounded inside the venue\u00a0signaling participants to move for the exits.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers formed up into lines to prevent people from approaching the affected area.<\/p>\n<p><img data-format=\"MASTER_LANDSCAPE\" data-id=\"74826689\" data-url=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/74826689_${formatId}.jpg\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" alt=\"People walk inside a damaged structure following a fire alert during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), in Belem, Brazil, November 20, 2025. \" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; max-height: 0;\"\/>Damage was visible in parts of the venue Image: Adriano Machado\/REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>What do we know about the fire at COP30?<\/p>\n<p>Tourism Minister Celso Sabino said on Brazilian television soon after that &#8220;the incident has already been contained.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Firefighters and security teams responded promptly and continue to monitor the site,&#8221; Brazil&#8217;s COP30 organizers said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The site will not reopen before 8 p.m. local time (11 p.m. GMT), the organizers said, adding that there had been &#8220;limited damage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They also said 13 people were treated for smoke inhalation as a result of the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>Officials later said the venue reopened on Thursday and that negotiations would resume\u00a0on Friday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Final phases of two-week summit<\/p>\n<p>The two-week global climate summit, drawing in tens of thousands of people from around the world, is reaching its final phases.<\/p>\n<p>The nominal last day is Friday, November 21, but in past years, extensions seeking a consensus on a pledge or pledges among various national governments have been common.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The summit had\u00a0already missed a self-imposed deadline of Wednesday to reach agreements on issues like <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germany-pledges-1-billion-to-brazils-rainforest-protection-fund\/a-74814439\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">how to increase climate finance<\/a> and <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/cop30-why-a-roadmap-to-move-away-from-fossil-fuels-matters\/a-74806037\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">forming a roadmap to move away from fossil fuels<\/a>, implying delays could be possible even before Thursday&#8217;s fire.<\/p>\n<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had urged negotiators to &#8220;engage in good faith&#8221; and seek an &#8220;amibitous compromise&#8221; in comments earlier on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world is watching Belem,&#8221; he told reporters at a morning news conference. &#8220;Communities on the frontline are watching, too\u00a0\u2014 counting flooded homes, failed harvests, lost livelihoods, and asking, how much more must we suffer?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indigenous groups call for climate justice at COP30<\/p>\n<p class=\"vjs-no-js\">To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that <a href=\"https:\/\/videojs.com\/html5-video-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">supports HTML5 video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edited by\u00a0Karl Sexton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire forced organizers of the UN&#8217;s COP30 climate talks in Belem in northern Brazil to empty the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-276747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}