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\n U.S. President Donald Trump displays a letter to the United Nations notifying them of his withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, in Washington on Jan. 20th.
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COP30 organizers haven\u2019t laid out a main goal or deal going into the talks. The first such summit to be held in the Amazon rainforest, it is set to focus on implementation, or turning policies into tangible outcomes. Hoekstra said he hopes for three key achievements: steps to close the gap between current climate policies and what scientists say is needed to limit temperature rise; action to scale up carbon markets; and for countries to “get concrete\u201d about climate adaptation.<\/p>\n
Most countries missed the deadline to submit their climate pledges to the U.N. ahead of the talks, and a recent analysis found those pledges would result in emissions cuts far lower than what\u2019s needed to avoid the worst impacts of global warming.<\/p>\n
While the EU is a leader on ambitious climate policy with a binding target of net zero emissions by 2050, it hasn\u2019t yet submitted its own pledge, or Nationally Determined Contribution, for 2035.<\/p>\n
“If you are more than walking the talk yourself, you always have an easier conversation,\u201d Hoekstra said. At COP30, the EU “can motivate, we can build coalitions, we can bring others into the tent,\u201d he said. But he noted that the 27 countries in the bloc together only account for a small fraction of the world\u2019s annual emissions.<\/p>\n
That means “there is no alternative for the others, amongst roughly the group of the G20, to take action themselves,\u201d said Hoekstra.<\/p>\n
The world\u2019s biggest greenhouse gas polluter, China, submitted a NDC that was largely seen as modest. Hoekstra described China\u2019s climate policies as having “pluses and minuses,\u201d noting he\u2019s particularly worried about the superpower\u2019s coal-plant-building push, which risks locking in future fossil fuel use. “It would be very important for the world if they would actually refrain from that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n