The Brazilian diplomats who will preside over the COP30 climate summit in November say they are focused on ensuring the hundreds of climate pledges already made by governments, corporations and others at previous COP meetings are met, rather than getting them to make fresh promises.
COP30’s High Level Champion Dan Ioschpe told journalists that, while “we are not against new initiatives”, his team are “very much focused on what has already been drawn up and solutions that are already coming up over time”. He added that there have been over 400 initiatives coming out of COPs over the last ten years – on everything from methane to forests and conflict-affected states – and the COP30 team wants to map them and then analyse the bottlenecks preventing their implementation.
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