Brics summit in Brazil tries to reinvent collective approach to world’s problems | Jonathan Watts

<p>President Lula rebukes wealthy countries for retreating on climate and trade but bloc is divided and unbalanced</p><p>As the US retreats from the international stage, the most powerful political alliance in the global south has come together in Brazil this week to try to revive and reinvent a collective approach to the world’s problems.</p><p>The summit of the Brics group of nations at the Museum of Contemporary Art on the edge of Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro is both a dress rehearsal for the Belém Cop30 UN climate conference in November and a rebuke to wealthier countries that have withdrawn to bunkers, launched missiles and choked off aid to poorer regions.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/07/brics-summit-brazil-president-lula">Continue reading...</a>