In the face of “climate urgency,” the Brazilian presidency of the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, called for a focus on implementing climate action in the lead-up to the summit in Belém this November.
“The international community should investigate how climate cooperation could become better equipped to accelerate the implementation of the Paris Agreement and of COP decisions by aggregating efforts that are currently fragmented,” the presidency wrote in its second letter to the public, published Thursday at the end of the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial — the second in a series of gatherings to galvanize consensus ahead of COP30. The first was the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, which took place in March in Berlin.
One of the primary criticisms of annual COP meetings is that they produce big promises but don’t create clear pathways for implementing them.
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Jesse Chase-Lubitz
Jesse Chase-Lubitz covers climate change and multilateral development banks for Devex. She previously worked at Nature Magazine, where she received a Pulitzer grant for an investigation into land reclamation. She has written for outlets such as Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, and The Japan Times, among others. Jesse holds a master’s degree in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics.
