The foundations of climate diplomacy are currently being questioned, and a month before COP30 in Brazil, more than half of the world's countries have not presented any plan to reduce carbon emissions, the president of the Energy Policy Group (EPG), Radu Dudau, told a specialist conference on Thursday.
"Although there is very solid climate science, it seems that public acceptance of it is eroding across the globe. So there are many challenges. COP30 will bring to the fore several key elements. So, it will be a very important meeting in Belem, and the member states of the UNFCCC ( United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) convention have to present their nationally determined contributions. Basically, they have to say exactly what they will do and what targets they are setting to reduce carbon emissions. Unfortunately, even a month before the event, more than half of the world's countries have not presented any plans. The issue of financing, investments in technology transfer to developing countries, will be crucial, because the very generous commitments of the past seem not to be observed and are unlikely to be fulfilled considering the current approach," said Dudau.
The EPG specialist recalled, in this context, the major reference point of environmental protection - the Paris Agreement - initialed a decade ago.
"October is a deliberately chosen time for the climate diplomacy conference. It comes a month before the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - UNFCCC, the UN framework for these increasingly important annual meetings on critical issues of climate diplomacy. COP30 is due to start next month in Brazil, 30 years after the first COP took place in Berlin. It is a year of round numbers for climate diplomacy. It also marks the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, which was marked as a major landmark. People see this agreement as a system and as an international agreement. Virtually all countries have committed to reducing carbon e missions and putting the planet on a trajectory for a warming of no more than two degrees Celsius, possibly 1.5 degrees, compared to pre-industrial levels," Radu Dudau stressed.
The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP30 will take place in Belem, Brazil, from November 10 to 21.
The Romanian Diplomatic Institute and the Energy Policy Group (EPG) are organizing, on Thursday, the second edition of the event "Climate Diplomacy in Central and Eastern Europe: Regional Dialogue in the Preparation of COP30".
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