{"id":414178,"date":"2025-11-21T19:26:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414178"},"modified":"2025-11-21T19:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:26:50","slug":"did-a-battery-fire-just-kill-the-cop30-climate-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414178","title":{"rendered":"Did a Battery Fire Just Kill the COP30 Climate Conference?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026 One eyewitness told the BBC that he believes an electrical fire was the cause. \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COP30 climate talks evacuated after fire breaks out<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgina Rannard and BBC climate team in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The talks were in the final hours of trying to agree on next steps to tackle climate but the fire has disrupted negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was climbing the walls and onto the ceiling. People were screaming,\u201d Dr Harshita Umesh, who was giving a talk next to the place where they fire broke out, told BBC News.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThen I ran, I think I tripped and fell.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople are pretty traumatised and shocked,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a huge panic, people have been running out of here, it\u2019s a very dramatic moment\u2026 UN security guards are telling us to leave,\u201d said BBC Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt looks actually as if they are beginning to get it under control but you can see huge columns of smoke rising up into the air through the hole that\u2019s been burnt in the top of the conference centre.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One eyewitness told the BBC that he believes an electrical fire was the cause.

\u2026Read more (includes video): https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce9d9p5jrjgo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The article doesn\u2019t say it was a battery fire, but from the video in the BBC article above, it was a pretty impressive blaze for a simple electrical fault. Of course the intensity of the fire might have been caused by all the disposable single use petroleum based plastic used to construct the climate conference pavilion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN seems determined the conference will continue, but with the conference almost at its end, no significant leaders in town, and many conference center evacuees likely relocating to the nearest wine bar to calm their nerves, there is a good chance a lot of people will pack up and go home early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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