How COP30 can re-energize climate action - Stabroek News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : The progress made in recent years has been unmistakable: wind and solar power have more than tripled since 2015, and EVs have grown from less than 1% back then to over 20% today.
60% : The 2023 Global Stocktake in Dubai called on countries to triple renewable energy capacity, double energy efficiency, promote a just transition away from fossil fuels, and halt (and then reverse) deforestation by 2030.
57% : In China, President Xi Jinping says he wants to use the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan to "accelerate" the construction of a new energy system and promote the safe, reliable, and orderly replacement of fossil energy.
56% : BERLIN - It is hard to imagine a more appropriate venue for this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30).
55% : With the Trump administration actively working to slow the phaseout of fossil fuels, confirming this target will send an important signal to investors and planners around the world.
55% : As Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva suggested on the first day of COP30, governments could create a roadmap detailing various pathways to a just transition away from fossil fuels, which would require an agreement on what a just transition must include.
46% : And in the European Union, GDP grew by about 68% between 1990 and 2023, while net greenhouse-gas emissions decreased by approximately 37%, according to preliminary data.
44% : The falling costs of renewable energy, electric vehicles, and battery storage clear the path for governments, civil society, and regional and municipal leaders to tackle the challenge of climate safety.
37% : The UN Environment Programme's latest emissions gap report makes clear that without stronger governmental action, we will inevitably see temperature levels at which crops fail, cities overheat, economies falter, and the human toll soars.

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