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The prelude to COP30, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, has a central question: will it be the moment when the world moves from promises to actions? The summit seeks to shift global climate action amid diplomatic tensions and the absence of the leaders of the United States, China, Russia and India. We analyze it in El Debate with our experts and with María Clara Calle, special envoy.
Belém, gateway to the Amazon rainforest, becomes the epicenter of the global climate debate.
Leaders from more than 50 countries are under pressure to show real progress since that historic 2015 Paris pact, in which the international community committed to limiting global warming to 1.5°C. However, a decade later, emissions continue to rise and the effects of climate change intensify.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has promised that this will be “the COP of implementation,” with the Amazon as a symbol and scene of urgency.
Brazil and Azerbaijan presented a roadmap to mobilize $1.3 trillion in climate financing, while the countries of the global South demand concrete commitments from the historically most polluting powers.
“Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the share of fossil fuels in the global energy matrix has decreased only from 83% to 80%,” said Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, during the COP30 leaders' summit.
However, the summit also comes with shadows: the United States, China, Russia and India, four of the five countries that emit the most greenhouse gases, will not participate in this climate event.
In this context, during The Debate, the guests analyzed the big questions that will mark this climatic event. They questioned whether Lula's goal of reaching concrete commitments without the leaders of the United States, China, Russia and India is realistic.
The program also discussed what the role of the Amazonian indigenous communities should be, considered guardians of the territory where a good part of the planet's climate future is played out.
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They also addressed the importance of the fund for tropical forests that could redefine financing and environmental justice mechanisms and reflected on whether the world has reached a point of no return, in which there is no longer talk of preventing climate change but of how to mitigate its consequences.
Finally, they agreed that the success of Belém will depend on this COP being able to translate the promises into verifiable policies, with a clear roadmap and measurable commitments. Only then can we speak of a truly unprecedented summit.
In this broadcast we are accompanied from Belém by the special envoy of France 24, María Clara Calle, and the experts:
Aura Vásquez, environmental activist and renewable energy consultant.
Raphael Hoetmer, director of the Western Amazon program at Amazon Watch.
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