The United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan, and Brazil, as presidencies of the U.N. climate summits COP 28, COP 29, and COP 30, respectively, formally launched the COP Presidencies Troika in February. What does this global partnership mean, and how will it work to keep the 1.5 degrees Celsius climate goal within reach?
The troika — or group of three — was initiated at COP 28 in December 2023 and is the first time in almost three decades of U.N. Climate Change Conferences of the Parties that three presidencies have decided to join forces and work actively together.
Historically, there have been instances where the outgoing presidency and the incoming one have worked closely on overlapping issues. Peru’s COP 20 prepared the Paris Agreement that was finally agreed in France in 2015 at COP 21, and Scotland’s COP 26 rescued the disputed rulebook for Article 6 on carbon markets that Spain had failed to achieve in 2019 at COP 25.
About the author
Tais Gadea Lara
Tais Gadea Lara is a climate journalist from Argentina. She has been covering the climate negotiations and international politics since 2014. She is currently a climate explorer at the Constructive Institute. She is the author of the newsletter Planeta and collaborates in different media, such as the National Geographic, Climática La Marea, and Climate Tracker. In 2020, she created the Environmental Journalism Workshop to train more people in the communication of the climate and ecological crisis. For several years, she has been recognized as one of the 100 Latinos most committed to climate action.
