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COP30 must make progress on past climate commitments

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COP30 must make progress on past climate commitments

COP presidencies tend to seek fresh agreements and ambitious initiatives, but when the celebrations are over, implementation often falls short. That is why Brazil’s COP30 presidency must eschew flashy results in favour of pragmatic pathways to deliver on past agreements

Jacinda Ardern, Carlos Lopes and Laurence Tubiana   22 Jul 2025

In 2015, the landmark Paris climate agreement set the ambitious but necessary goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and ensuring that the increase stays “well below” two degrees Celsius. With the average global surface temperature having already reached 1.1 degrees Celsius above the 20th-century baseline, time is running out to reach this goal. Yet governments have so far failed to agree on a strategy for doing so.

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