{"id":544060,"date":"2025-11-02T11:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T11:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/544060\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T11:25:11","slug":"eu-climate-chief-says-us-absence-from-cop30-is-watershed-moment-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/544060\/","title":{"rendered":"EU climate chief says US absence from COP30 is \u2018watershed moment\u2019 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The COP30 climate conference<\/a> will start on Nov. 10 in the Amazon port city of\u00a0Bel\u00e9m. The Trump administration said<\/a> it will not send \u201chigh level representatives,” amid Washington’s larger push against climate policies.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump has already announced the U.S. would exit the Paris climate agreement for a second time. Last month, the American delegation to the United Nations International Maritime Organization negotiations in London also pressured countries<\/a> to skip a vote on a proposed carbon emissions fee on global shipping.<\/p>\n

Overall, about 100 countries\u00a0have failed to submit stronger carbon goals ahead of the COP30, and the EU is lagging behind too. Last year, a U.N. report found<\/a>\u00a0that even if nations delivered on their plans for 2030, carbon pollution would fall less than 3 percent compared to 2019 levels. That would likely not be enough to avoid major climate tipping points.<\/p>\n

Hoekstra said in the interview that he hopes the COP30 will push governments to “get concrete” about adaptation to the new climate reality and make progress on carbon markets, among other initiatives. The climate commissioner also expressed concerns about China’s push to build coal plants.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be very important for the world if they would actually refrain from that,\u201d he said, adding that Beijing’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, known as nationally determined contribution (NDC), is too low. <\/p>\n

\u201cMost experts were hoping for an NDC north of 30 percent,\u201d Hoekstra told Bloomberg. \u201cAnd then an NDC that is in all likelihood below 10 percent? I mean, even with all the diplomatic language I would love to wrap around that, it\u2019s hard to see how that is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The COP30 climate conference will start on Nov. 10 in the Amazon port city of\u00a0Bel\u00e9m. The Trump administration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2813,1395,3854,71617,32,5398,2000,299,5187,4175,2441,25809,17792,856,7697,1398,49,64439],"class_list":{"0":"post-544060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-carbon","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-coal","11":"tag-cop30","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-emissions","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-european","17":"tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","18":"tag-markets","19":"tag-mayors","20":"tag-paris-climate-agreement","21":"tag-pollution","22":"tag-ports","23":"tag-shipping","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-wopke-hoekstra"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115479860359797904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}