US EditionAfrica: COP30 - Five Reasons the UN Climate Conference Failed to Deliver On Its 'People's Summit' Promise
Despite over 5,000 Indigenous attendees, fossil fuel interests dominated negotiations and voluntary side pledges drove most progress, with the final text omitting 'fossil fuels', analysts said.
- Last month in Belém, Cop30 faced a pavilion area fire and floods that delayed talks, producing a weak Belém package that omitted the term 'fossil fuels' despite 1.6°C global warming last year.
- Fossil-Fuel interests pushed negotiation delays, while opposition from Saudi Arabia and India watered down texts, and the United States sent no official delegation this year, creating a diplomatic vacuum.
- Over 5,000 Indigenous people attended, but only 360 secured blue-zone passes while protests, including the middle Saturday march, helped secure recognition of four territories.
- Implementation happened through voluntary pledges, with the Belém pledge committing signatories to quadruple sustainable fuels by 2035 and Brazil's forest trust fund securing 4.6 billion pledged.
- The Belém outcome raises doubts about meeting the Paris 1.5°C target, while China promoted its green-technology industries amid a growing gulf between oil-producing countries and climate-vulnerable states; with next year’s summit in Turkey, concerns about protest restrictions increase.
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Africa: COP30 - Five Reasons the UN Climate Conference Failed to Deliver On Its 'People's Summit' Promise
Analysis - As the sun set on the Amazon, the promise of a "people's Cop" faded with it. The latest UN climate summit - known as Cop30, hosted in the Brazilian city of Belém - came with the usual geopolitics and the added excitement of a flood and a fire.
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COP30: 5 Reasons the UN Climate Conference wasn't the Promised "People's Summit"
By Simon Chin-Yee, UCL; Mark Maslin, UCL, and Priti Parikh, UCL (The Conversation) – As the sun set on the Amazon, the promise of a “people’s Cop” faded with it. The latest UN climate summit – known as Cop30, hosted in the Brazilian city of Belém – came with the usual geopolitics and the added excitement of a flood and a fire. The summit saw Indigenous protests on an unprecedented scale, but the final negotiations were once again dominated by fo…
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