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"The United Nations’ global climate summit has finished for another year. Some
progress was made in Brazil on climate finance and adaptation. But efforts to
end reliance on fossil fuels were stymied by – you guessed it – fossil fuel
powers.
It left many observers with a question: is this really the best we can do?
Nearly every country (except the United States) joined the COP30 summit in the
Brazilian city of Belém. The meeting showed the best and the worst of
multilateralism – when countries try to address global problems beyond the
capacity of an individual nation.
On one hand, COP30 managed to draw world leaders to the heart of the Amazonian
rainforest to highlight the global issue of deforestation. And it maintained
political momentum on climate action despite an unprecedented year of
geopolitical turbulence, wars, finance cuts and UN job losses.
But the protracted climate negotiations failed to acknowledge the main drivers
of climate change in the final text, including fossil fuels. And the UN’s
decision-making process broke down on the final day of the summit. Many
countries objected to the opaque and undemocratic way Brazil pushed through the
final decision text.
A decade on from the
Paris Agreement, there’s a growing sense climate summits
are disconnected from real-world climate action. This begs the question: are
the UN climate negotiations still fit for purpose? Or do they need to be
reformed?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
