California aims to build on its reputation as a global climate leader at this year's COP conference in Belém, Brazil.

The European Union is working to establish new climate goals before the U.N. climate talks in Brazil starts next week

In the midst of the ongoing government shutdown, a number of Democrat governors, mayors and other officials are flying to Brazil climate change convenings in Brazil. Founder and executive director of Power the Future Daniel Turner told: “Calling the shutdown a ‘disaster’ and then jetting to Brazil is politics at its phoniest.

Governments heading to the U.N. COP30 climate summit in Brazil are bracing for the possibility that the Trump administration may seek to disrupt negotiations at the event - even without any U.S. officials showing up.

Brazil on Thursday unveiled long-awaited details of a plan to pay countries to preserve their tropical forests and announced it had already drawn $5.5 billion in pledges. The fund is President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's flagship project as he welcomes world leaders to the edge of the Amazon for the United Nations annual climate summit — an effort to draw attention and money to the imperiled rainforest crucial to curbing global warming.

The delegation Evers and Grisham were put in charge of leading is made up of more than 100 local leaders including “U.S. governors, mayors, and other top city and state officials.”

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in safeguarding the planet. Its record tells a more complicated story.

The California governor is coming off a political victory that solidified him as one of Democrats’ most prominent retorts to President Donald Trump.