COP 30 agenda: Contentious issues on climate change do not find a place
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India is now the largest emitter in the G20 without an updated emission-cutting plan. Article 4.2 of the Paris Agreement, of which India is a signatory, mandates an NDC for a five-year duration. (Photo: PTI)
5 min read Last Updated : Nov 19 2025 | 9:03 PM IST
“Mutirao,” a Portuguese word of indigenous origin meaning ‘collective effort’, has caught everyone’s imagination at the world’s biggest climate summit in Belem, Brazil, bordering the Amazon rainforest.
But as COP 30 careens towards a close this weekend, the fissures are glaring.
So much so that there was a rare statement from the Vatican by Pope Leo XIV, the first papal head from the US who is sitting out the conference.
“The creation is crying out in floods, droughts, storms and relentless heat. There is still time to keep the rise in global temperature below 1.5°C, but the window is closing,”