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South China Morning Post
09-03-2025
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
Can China and India step in to fill climate void left by Trump's America?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded its deliberations in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, recently. Predictably, there was a deadlock between the participants over the date by which the detailed, three-part assessment on the climate crisis – the seventh in the series – will be presented to the United Nations. Advertisement The report is a comprehensive review and a rigorously researched assessment of climate impacts, vulnerabilities and mitigation efforts. Some want the report to be prepared in time for the next 'Global Stocktake', a scorecard of climate mitigation efforts and goals identified in the Paris Agreement The first such stocktake concluded in 2023 at the 28th UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The next one is expected to be ready in 2028. However, the outcome at Hangzhou was merely to come up with a deadline later. The talks got off to an inauspicious start when the US decided to pull out of the IPCC at the last minute at the behest of US President Donald Trump – an inflexible climate change sceptic. During his first term, Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement, a feckless decision that he has since repeated, following the Biden administration's reversal of his original decision. Climate change deliberations have been hotly contested since the panel was set up in 1988 and, in recent decades, there has been bitter discord among various groups: rich and poor nations; major emitters of greenhouse gases and those with smaller carbon footprints; smaller island nations whose survival is threatened by sea-level rises and countries that are less vulnerable. Advertisement Multiple issues have been debated and negotiated intensely, including commitments such as nationally determined contributions and national adaptation plans.
Zawya
06-03-2025
- Politics
- Zawya
COP30 President highlights UAE-Brazil-Azerbaijan alliance as key to strengthening climate governance
ABU DHABI - The alliance between the United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan, and Brazil— the COP28 president and successors— has been a success, strengthening global climate cooperation, said Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, according to Agência Brasil. Speaking at an informal meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, the COP30 President-Designate highlighted the first edition of the Global Stocktake—delivered during COP28—as one of the key achievements. The mechanism is designed to assess progress towards long-term climate goals. 'The GST is our guide for the 1.5°C mission, in our collective project to implement the vision of the [Climate] Convention and the Paris Agreement—the vision of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change. All of this always in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty,' he stressed. Corrêa do Lago stated that strengthening multilateralism instruments is the path to reversing dangerous human interference with the planet. 'The choice of the General Assembly as my first official trip outside Brazil is no coincidence but a clear signal that the defence of multilateralism will be at the core of the Brazilian presidency of this COP. Respect for science would be another pillar of our presidency,' he noted. The COP30 President-Designate also declared that the summit, in November, to be held in the Amazonian city of Belém, in the state of Pará, should mark a decisive transition from the negotiation phase to effective efforts in action and implementation. 'The task ahead of us is to strengthen climate governance and provide agility, preparedness and foresight in both decision-making and implementation,' he said. According to Corrêa do Lago, Brazil expects COP30 to provide a decisive boost in three dimensions: protecting and expanding the institutional legacy of the Climate Convention; connecting negotiations and political decisions to real life; and accelerating the implementation of the Paris Agreement through structural solutions and initiatives that extend beyond multilateral climate action, including global governance and financial architecture. For the COP30 President-Designate, this includes the delivery of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which had their deadline extended after a low submission rate by the original cut-off in February. 'National leaders must honour their determination to pursue efforts to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees. Human lives depend on it. Future jobs depend on it. Healthy environments depend on it,' he said.
