In Belem, Brazil, where the mouth of the Amazon meets the Atlantic, the world has once again gathered to plan our survival.
At the 30th iteration of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), delegates in linen suits convene beneath a soaring tropical canopy; Indigenous protestors chant outside, demanding more than token participation. The rainforest burns; rivers shrink. The science, now centuries in the making, could not be clearer. And yet politics grows darker.
For the first time in the COP process, the agenda has formally recognized the crisis of information integrity. Nations have signed a “Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change,” pledging to combat misinformation and disinformation about climate science and action.
This bureaucratic gesture is also a profound admission: the climate crisis is …
