"Cop30 in Belem wrapped up on Saturday night more than 24 hours later than planned, and with an Amazonian rainstorm thundering down on the conference centre. The United Nations structure just about held, as it has done these past three weeks despite fire, savage tropical heat and blistering political attacks on the multilateral system of global environmental governance. Dozens of agreements were gavelled through on the final day, as the most collective form of humanity worked to resolve the most complex and dangerous challenge"
"The outcome was not nearly enough to limit global heating to 1.5C. There was a considerable shortfall of the finance needed for adaptation by the countries worst affected by extreme weather. The importance of rainforest protection barely got a mention even though this was the first climate summit in the Amazon. And the power balance in the world is still so skewed towards gas, oil and coal interests that there was not even a single mention of fossil fuels in the main agreement."
Cop30 in Belem concluded more than 24 hours late amid an Amazonian rainstorm and extreme onsite conditions including fire, heat and political attacks on multilateral environmental governance. Negotiations were chaotic, nearly collapsed, and required last-ditch talks into the early morning to salvage core agreements and keep the Paris Agreement alive. Final outcomes failed to align with a 1.5C pathway, left a large adaptation finance shortfall for vulnerable countries, and barely addressed rainforest protection despite being held in the Amazon. The summit omitted explicit fossil-fuel language, yet expanded Indigenous and scientific participation, advanced just-transition discussion, opened debate on petrochemical dependency, and extracted slightly greater financial commitment from wealthy nations. Five major threats must be avoided at the next summit in Turkey, including a global leadership vacuum.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]