Will Brazilian society succeed in extricating itself from the wilderness of the thirtieth Conference of the Climate Parties (COP30), a meeting whose contours are sometimes more difficult to separate than the banks of the Amazon river? Monday, November 10, a major United Nations (UN) meeting on climate change officially opened with a warning message regarding the state of the planet in which “It is now almost inevitable that warming will exceed 1.5°C”according to Jim Skea, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The solution? Stop “regret”according to UN climate chief Simon Stiell, and act on it “inflicting new defeats on those who deny”as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.
Behind the scenes, from day one, a fight has raged over the fate of COP30. On Sunday evening, the COP Brazil president listened at length to everyone’s wishes. Representatives of island countries and the most vulnerable countries demanded that this COP be an effort to increase ambition to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, in particular by seeking country commitments.
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