The COP30 Climate Meet had One Job, and Totally Crashed and Burned

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The World Bank notes, "Forests also play a key role in the mitigation of climate change, removing an estimated 16 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere annually, equaling about half of the annual CO2 released from burning fossil fuels."
49% : The UN says that the Tropical Forests Forever Fund "Raised $5.5 billion and now includes 53 participating countries; at least 20 per cent of resources go directly to Indigenous Peoples and local communities."
47% : All the substantial progress that has been made in the past decade toward producing electricity from renewables has still not resulted in any diminution of our annual carbon emissions, though their rate of increase has slowed.
47% : The UN News Service reported, "Before the final plenary, Brazilian scientist Carlos Nobre issued a stark warning: fossil fuel use must fall to zero by 2040 - 2045 at the latest to avoid catastrophic temperature rises of up to 2.5°C by mid-century.
47% : Of course, India and China together account for a fourth of the world's population and they were against a formal commitment to phase out fossil fuels, too.
45% : Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - COP30 in Belém, Brazil, has ended without an agreement by member states to reaffirm the phasing out of fossil fuels, which is the only way to avert rolling climate catastrophes.
44% : Over 80 countries at COP30, including most members of the European Union and climate-threatened countries such as Kenya, Colombia and Chile, had banded together to demand a roadmap to ending the burning of petroleum, coal and fossil gas.
43% : That trajectory, he said, would spell the near-total loss of coral reefs, the collapse of the Amazon rainforest and an accelerated melt of the Greenland ice sheet.
39% : Ironically, the COP closing statements are not binding on any individual country, so nobody would even have been inconvenienced if the Brazil meeting had called for a roadmap to end fossil fuels.
37% : Some of the decisions that COP30 states did take seem brain dead in light of the failure to pledge the end of fossil fuels.
36% : The vague advice to countries to cut down on their carbon dioxide emissions is useless without fingering the main culprit in those emissions.

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