{"id":393426,"date":"2025-09-03T02:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/393426\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T02:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:21:11","slug":"cop-30-to-focus-on-known-solutions-says-its-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/393426\/","title":{"rendered":"COP-30 to focus on known solutions, says its President"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Aerial view of the Outeiro port at the Para river in Belem, Para State, Brazil on August 25, 2025. Brazil will host the UN climate conference COP30 in November in the Amazonian city of Belem.
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Instead of big-ticket announcements, the forthcoming edition of the U.N. climate summit is expected to focus on \u201cwell known solutions\u201d, with the host country, Brazil, moving to cleave the \u201cnegotiations\u201d aspect of climate talks from the \u201cimplementation\u201d of agreements.<\/p>\n

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will hold its 30th Conference of Parties (COP-30) in November, in the Brazilian port city of Belem, a gateway to the Amazonian rainforest.<\/p>\n

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With U.S. President Donald Trump having withdrawn his country from the UNFCCC\u2019s Paris Agreement<\/a> for the second time and casting global trade into flux with his tariffs, diplomats and seasoned climate negotiators said that this was a \u201cdifficult year and things could go bad\u201d for the COP process. However, COP-30 president Andr\u00e9 Corr\u00eaa do Lago, a Brazilian Minister, insisted that there are also \u201cgrounds for optimism\u201d. Addressing a conclave organised here by the Council on Energy Environment and Water (CEEW), \u201cIn the run-up to COP-30, we are trying to de-couple the process of negotiation \u2013 and agreements like the UNFCCC are designed for negotiation \u2013 from that of implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Implement agreed text\u2019<\/p>\n

The typical process of climate negotiations in most COPs focusses on creating a \u201ctext\u201d, said Mr. Lago, noting that it was \u201chorribly difficult\u201d to assemble all countries and have them agree on one. \u201cHowever, once we have a text, one must use it and not just think of the next text… People have responded very well to the fact that we are looking to use this [year\u2019s] text for implementing what we have already agreed upon.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Paris Agreement ironed out at COP-21 in 2015 is considered historic because it committed all countries, not just developed countries, to take action to contain greenhouse gas emissions to keep the increase in average global temperatures from exceeding 2 degrees Celsius and \u201cas far as possible below 1.5C\u201d by the turn of the century. However, several scientific assessments suggest that the impact of all countries\u2019 current commitments, even if implemented, will still lead to an increase of more than 2.6 C, though the U.N. still hopes that the Paris targets may be achieved. <\/p>\n

Non-government action needed<\/p>\n

One of the reasons for tardy climate action is that multilateralism, or getting all countries to agree upon decisive action, is challenging given competing interests. There has been a chorus building up over the years that there are \u2018limits\u2019 to what professional diplomats representing their countries at the conferences can achieve, with many saying it is increasingly up to non-government actors to take bolder action towards limiting emissions.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the very worst, it could be that we spend two weeks and countries are unable to agree upon an agenda,\u201d said Ana Toni, an economist and CEO of the COP 30 Presidency. \u201cOn the other hand, all countries have agreed upon the direction in which we must be moving. This means increasing renewable energy use, re-forestation, making agriculture more resilient. There are several solutions already, but maybe Brazil does not know what is happening in India and India unaware of that in Brazil. What we need is to involve sub-national governments (states, cities etc), businesses, independent think tanks, and go problem by problem and figure out why can\u2019t we go faster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back-room deals<\/p>\n

The Paris Agreement was made possible by a \u201cback-room deal\u201d between Chinese President Xi Jinping and then-U.S. President Barack Obama, according to Mohan Kumar, who was India\u2019s Ambassador to France at the time. He explained how they had \u201cunblocked\u201d the impasse in the negotiations, though their deal also broke the solidarity between a coalition of countries called BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India, and China). \u201cThe problem today is that there is no one to do such a back-room deal unless President Trump changes his mind and goes to Beijing and a lot of other things happen… This an opportunity for several other actors, for instance, individual cities in India, to take a lead,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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A key achievement of COP-29, held last November in Baku, Azerbaijan, was that countries agreed to a new climate finance goal of $300 billion per year by 2030. While this is a hike from the earlier goal of $100 billion annually by 2025, it is still far short of the $1.3 trillion that is reportedly needed to achieve the Paris Agreement\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n

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