To paraphrase Monty Python, the climate parrot may still be nailed to its perch at the recent Cop30 summit in Belem, Brazil - or at Harvard and on CNN - but elsewhere it's dead.
Nearly 200 countries, including the EU, approved the deal by consensus on Saturday after two weeks of fraught negotiations in the Brazilian city of Belem in the Amazon.
Hundreds of rubber tappers marched through Belem, Brazil, during the U.N. climate talks, demanding an end to deforestation and more support for forest protection.
Delegates taking a step out from their cosseted purpose-built area in Belem, Brazil, where COP30 is taking place, would be left shocked at the scenes of squalor just a few minutes away.
Ed Miliband flew to Brazil ten days ago to meet up with PM Sir Keir Starmer and Prince William in Rio de Janeiro before they all flew onto Belem where the COP30 climate summit is taking place.