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Little progress was made in the first week of the talks, although some delegations say they are pushing for an agreed strategy to deliver on past promises to move away from using planet-warming fossil fuels.

According to Transparency International, 54 percent of participants in national delegations either withheld their affiliation or selected a vague category such as "guest" or "other."

The prince led a delegation of 120 Africans who travelled through the Austro-Hungarian empire and posed for six months in a show that was visited by up to 10,000 people a day.

“Belém was never seen by delegations outside of Brazil as the right place to have a COP,” said Wayne King, director of climate change for the Cook Islands in the South Pacific.

The US delegation's visit to Beirut, headed by senior director for counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka, came as Washington works to cut off Iran-backed Hezbollah's funding and Lebanon's government tries to disarm it.