US EditionCOP30 Delivered Roadmaps Not Resolutions. Here’s Why It Still Matters
COP30 revealed sharp divides over fossil fuel expansion and the demand for $1.3 trillion in grant-based climate finance, highlighting Indigenous leadership and justice issues.
- From 10-21 November, COP30 convened in Belém, Brazil, assembling world leaders, scientists, activists, negotiators and diplomats to negotiate concrete climate commitments under the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties.
- Because the world has breached the 1.5°C threshold, climate science experts warn a global warming projection 2.8°C by 2100 raises stakes as governments that have loosened fossil-fuel policies fuel tensions.
- Brazil's domestic permitting actions revealed a contradiction as Brazil's environmental agency granted Petrobras, Brazil's state-owned oil company, a license to drill at the mouth of the Amazon, threatening local water and soil and ecological balance.
- Delegates pressed for grant-based finance, urging governments to scale up funding under the COP29 Roadmap toward the $1.3 trillion climate finance target to avoid indebting vulnerable countries.
- To reduce long-term risk, governments must commit to a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, resisting corporate interests and reports that the United States pressured some countries to buy US fossil fuels to close the ambition gap and protect billions of people and ecosystems this year.
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The climate coalition fractured at COP30 – but a new alliance could turn the tide
Mike Buckley is the director of the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations and a former Labour Party adviser A lost opportunity COP30 was meant to be a game changer. Hosts Brazil framed the event as the “COP of Truth”, a pivotal moment in which years of negotiation would come to fruition in ambitious, meaningful roadmaps to cut fossil fuel use and deliver on climate finance, deforestation, and Indigenous rights. Yet despite the efforts of COP…
How will COP30 outcomes affect Philippine climate action?
And so, another round of climate negotiations has ended, unknown to most of the Philippines. While millions of Filipinos continue to watch the current administration be weakened by allegations and evidence of corruption and incompetence, the rest of the world convened in Brazil for the 30th United Nations climate negotiations (COP30) to decide the direction of global climate action. After two weeks that saw over 50,000 delegates go through the r…
COP30: Nations chose unity, science and economic common sense amid ‘stormy political waters’ – The Mail & Guardian
The 30th annual UN climate summit (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, showed that international cooperation on the issue is still “alive and kicking”, United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell said. “We knew this COP would take place in stormy political waters,” the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said. “Denial, division and geopolitics has dealt international cooperation some heavy blows this year…
COP 30: Hey ho, fraud-ridden CORSIA has gotta go (too)!
As the International Air Transport Association (IATA) put it: “As you can imagine, with a commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050,…CORSIA—the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation— in the spotlight… this critical meeting” CORSIA “is the first global market-based scheme that applies to a sector,” boasts ICAO.
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