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COP 30: Between Uncertainty and Environmental Chaos
The latest edition of the COP highlighted disagreements regarding environmental protection. With noticeable absences and tensions over the commitments to be addressed, this edition of the Conference of the Parties sparked considerable discussion.
In recent months, humanity has witnessed countless natural phenomena that demonstrate the advance of climate change. In this context, the thirtieth edition of the Conference of the Parties, better known as COP, took place.
From November 6 to 21, representatives of the International Community gathered in the Brazilian city of Belém to discuss and negotiate topics related to environmental security, sustainable development, and global warming.
As highlighted by the United Nations, this Conference was crucial for reaching an agreement to advance the development of low and middle-income countries, also known as emerging States.
This measure is significant, as it will be primarily those countries that are part of the so-called Global South that will feel the consequences of climate change more visibly through increasingly extreme natural phenomena.
For example, in recent months, the inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean have witnessed various events that demonstrate that the effects of global warming are already part of our present.
With significant absences—Argentina and the United States were notably absent at this edition—the Conference of the Parties took place in Brazil, a country willing to take environmental leadership focused on the protection and preservation of the Amazon.
Despite addressing the risks to biodiversity—over the last few decades, the number of endangered species has significantly increased—fossil fuels, a major topic of debate in previous climate summits, have been excluded from the Agenda despite the strong demands from activists present at the Conference.
Ten years after the twentieth edition of the Conference of the Parties, which resulted in the Paris Agreement, the most revolutionary climate measure to mitigate the effects of global warming, today countries find themselves stagnant, with rising climate denialism. To achieve a reduction in global temperature, it is imperative to develop the political will of all members of the International Community.
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