COP30: five reasons the UN climate conference failed to deliver on its ‘people’s summit’ promise

The summit saw Indigenous protests on an unprecedented scale, but the final negotiations were once again dominated by fossil fuel interests and delaying tactics. After ten years of climate (in)action since the Paris agreement, Brazil promised COP30 would be an “implementation COP”. But the summit failed to deliver, even as the world recorded a devastating 1.6˚C of global warming last year.

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