In anticipation of COP-30, Brazil promises to “disconnect” climate negotiations and implementation

Instead of announcements on a large ticket, the upcoming edition of the UN Climate Summit is expected to concentrate on “known solutions”, with the host country, Brazil, to split the “negotiations” aspect of climate discussions from the “implementation” of similarities.

The UN Framework Treaty on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will hold its 30th Conference of Parties (COP-30) in the Brazilian Havenstad Belem in November, an access gate to the Amazon Register forest.

With US President Donald Trump, his country withdrew his country from the UNFCCC agreement of Paris for the second time and has set out the global trade in Flux with his rates, diplomats and seasoned climate negotiators said this was a “difficult year and that things could be bad” for the COP process. However, COP-30-President André Corrêa Do Lago, a Brazilian minister, insisted that there are also “grounds for optimism”. When tackling a conclave here organized by the Council on Energy Environment and Water (CEW): “In the run-up to COP-30 we try to disrupt the negotiation process and similarities such as the UNFCCC are designed for negotiations of that of implementation.”

‘Implement agreed text’

The typical process of climate negotiations among most agents focuses on creating a “text,” Mr Lago said, and noted that it was “terribly difficult” to collect all countries and agree. “Once we have a text, one must use it and not only think of the following text … People have responded very well to the fact that we want to use this [year’s] Text for implementing what we have already agreed. “

The Paris Agreement, which was ironed on COP-21 in 2015, is considered historic because it has committed all countries, not only developed countries, to take action to contain the emissions of greenhouse gases to increase the average global temperatures in relation to the 2 degrees Celsius and “against the age of 1.5 ° C”. However, various scientific assessments suggest that the impact of the current obligations of all countries, even if implemented, will still lead to an increase of more than 2.6 C, although the UN still hopes that the objectives of Paris can be achieved.

NOTAL GOUNCHING PACILE NEED

One of the reasons for slow climate action is that multilateralism, or to allow all countries to agree on decisive action, a challenge is given competing interests. Over the years, a choir has been built up that there are ‘limits’ to what professional diplomats can achieve their countries at the conferences, with many who say that it is increasingly non-governmental actors to take a braver action to limit emissions.

“The worst may be that we spend two weeks and landing is unable to agree an agenda,” said Ana Toni, an economist and CEO of the COP 30 presidency. “On the other hand, all countries have agreed to the direction in which we have to move. This means increasing the use of renewable energy consumption, re -confirmation, making agriculture more resilient. There are already several solutions. There are already different solutions, but perhaps Brazil does not know what is in India and India in Brazil. Go faster.”

Backsroom Deals

The Paris agreement was made possible by a “back room agreement” between Chinese President Xi Jinping and the then President Barack Obama, according to Mohan Kumar, who was the Indian ambassador in France at the time. He explained how they had “unblocked” the impasse in the negotiations, although their deal also broke solidarity between a coalition of countries called basic (Brazil, South Africa, India and China). “The problem today is that there is no one to do such a back-room deal, unless President Trump changes his mind and goes to Beijing and many other things happen … This is an opportunity for various other actors, for example individual cities in India, to take a lead,” he added.

An important achievement of COP-29, in November in Baku, Azerbaijan, was that countries were in accordance with a new climate financing goal of $ 300 billion a year in 2030. Although this is an increase in the earlier goal of $ 100 billion annually in 2025, it is still a lot of discount of the $ 1.3 trillion that is said to be the Paris agreement.