With the U.S. fed up and only
100 governments left willing to attend COP30 in Brazil on combatting carbon-emissions
and the related global warming, the question of whether the basis of the annual
conference, voluntary compliance, is sufficient and thus should be enabled by
the staged meetings. Even to continue to have the conferences annually can be
viewed as part of a broader state of denial, given that the 1.5C degree maximum
for the planet’s warming set at the Paris conference about a decade earlier was
by 2025 universally acknowledged by scientists to no longer be realistic; the
target would almost certainly be surpassed. It is in this context that any progress
from COP30 should be placed.
The full essay is at "COP30."
