The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday a collaborative effort with Azerbaijan and Brazil, the hosts of the next two U.N. climate summits.
The United Arab Emirates, which hosted last year’s COP 28 climate summit, announced on Tuesday a collaborative effort with Azerbaijan and Brazil, the hosts of the next two U.N. climate summits.
This alliance aims to advocate for more ambitious emissions-cutting goals amidst a backdrop of political resistance to climate action in some nations, coinciding with increased extreme weather events and record-breaking temperatures.
Under the leadership of Sultan Al Jaber, the president and host of last year’s negotiations, the UAE’s COP 28 presidency emphasized the formation of a three-way “troika” to ensure the establishment of more ambitious CO2-cutting pledges before the 2025 COP30 summit in Belem, Brazil.
Al Jaber stressed the urgency of maintaining momentum and striving to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, a key objective outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement.
The forthcoming COP29 summit in November, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, will focus primarily on reaching a consensus on a new global target for climate finance intended to support developing countries. However, anticipation is already building for Brazil’s COP30 summit in 2025, regarded as a pivotal moment for the global climate diplomacy.
With nearly 200 countries expected to submit updated national CO2-cutting pledges for COP30, this round of commitments is viewed as critical in averting the trajectory of global warming beyond the 1.5-degree threshold, which is increasingly becoming elusive due to rising greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
Against the backdrop of numerous elections worldwide, the political figures like Donald Trump in the United States and far-right parties in the upcoming EU elections have encountered resistance to climate policies as they seek to appeal to voters. This political pushback underscores the challenges faced in the advancing climate action despite the pressing need for the concerted efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change.