Greens doing their best to put a brave face on Novermber’s zero achievement climate conference.
Ten years after the Paris Agreement, COP30 produced mixed results
December 30, 2025 • By Elin Westerling ,
This year, the Paris Agreement turned ten–An occasion to commemorate a truly remarkable achievement of multilateral diplomacy …
In addition to the ten-year anniversary, several things set COP30 apart from the conference’s last iterations. Chief among them, that it took place in a democratic country, Brazil. The host city was another factor: Belém, a port in the Amazonian state of Pará, was chosen to put the spotlight on the rainforest’s crucial role in the global fight against climate change. Indigenous peoples’ inclusion was a central priority for the Brazilian Presidency, and concretely President Lula da Silva had set two main goals: Get negotiators to agree on a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels, and a roadmap to end deforestation.
The choice of setting was not only symbolic but served as a physical reminder to attendees of why they were there: Sweltering heat and daily torrential rains contributed to the sense of urgency, further accentuated when a fire broke out inside the venue on the second to last day of the conference. Even so, geopolitical tensions and limitations of consensus-based processes once again delivered a disappointing result when, after two weeks of intense negotiations, the final text (‘the Mutirão Decision’) did not include any concrete roadmaps or even mention fossil fuels.
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At the end of COP30, it was clear that outcomes did not match the expectations set, decreasing the Paris Agreement implementation gap only slightly. It is frustrating but not all that surprising that negotiations once again fell for the same conflict of interests that lie at the very heart of the climate crisis. While Brazil clearly shared the disappointment in the lack of a fossil fuel phaseout roadmap, their ability in getting all states to unite behind it may have been clouded by Lula da Silva’s decision to grant new oil exploration licenses in the Amazon delta just weeks before COP30 began. But the final outcome notwithstanding, COP30 managed to set a tone of people-centered and inclusive climate action, demonstrating how even when international negotiations fall short, action will continue to be driven from the ground up. What this legacy means when the conference next year returns to a country with low-ranging performance in International IDEA’s GSoD Indices, not least in terms of factors like civil society and civic activism, remains to be seen.
Read more: https://www.idea.int/blog/ten-years-after-paris-agreement-cop30-produced-mixed-results
Thanks for that Elin Westerling, this makes the COP30 fiasco even more hilarious.
I missed the story about Brazilian President Lula Da Silva granting the Amazonian Rainforest oil exploration licenses just weeks before leading a conference where he demanded an end to deforestation and oil production.
Happy New Year from Australia. May your 2026 bring you joy and happiness and more WUWT moments of hilarity like Da Silva’s impressive Amazonian rainforest climate hypocrisy.
No, clouded by corruption and leftist stupidity. Although, much like smoke from a house fire when they are intermingled you can’t tell one toxic substance from the other.
One wonders if the lipstick they plaster on the Climate Pig is Green.
How much longer can they keep up this charade? Who’s paying for it now?
There are so many highly profitable non- profits/charities/foundations –
and the biggest ones are owned by the same people who massively benefit from the AGW scam.
They can keep this afloat for quite some time, or at least for the next 3 years.
Past time to reveal the many huge bogus charities and their many huge tax evasions.
I detest con women and con men who prise money from gullible poor people, using false pretences and false advertising. These are a living definition of human leeches. They know who they are while laughing all their ways to their banks. Geoff S
Considering that Belem lies very close to the equator, was it extraordinary that the attendees should have been plagued by sweltering heat and torrential rain, especially in November? If the organizers want to spare the conference from such inconveniences, why don’t they hold future meetings in places like Winnipeg, Irkutsk, Harbin, Lulea, or Fairbanks where they’ll have to look long and hard to find any evidence of major climate change. Isn’t it a bit suspicious that the COPs have never been held in areas where winters consistently make their presences known? As for the new oil exploration licenses, Brazil is primarily concerned with its economy and export opportunities, and has realized long ago that there’s no global market for wind- and solar-generated energy.
I say they have it at the South Pole, and see if conditions now are any better than they were when Amundsen reached it over 100 years ago.
Katowice?
I really feel pity for the Brits and Germans, who seem to be the only True Believers left.
Unfortunately we have the same far-left political belief of the climate farce, down here in Australia.
They are leading the World, along with OZ and NZ. It’s just that the world doesn’t seem to be following.
COP30 is just another example of what is called “fighting” climate change.
It’s the only scheduled fight ever that never has any winners.
“The choice of setting was not only symbolic but served as a physical reminder to attendees of why they were there”
How about holding the next COP in Montreal or Ottawa in January? But that wouldn’t satisfy the proper symbolic setting, would it?
Temperature in Montreal is a chilly -15° C.
I wish we could send you some of our heat, about 26C heading to 30C in my part of Australia.
Very pleasant isn’t it. 🙂
Mind you, hit 42C here a couple of weeks ago… but I have two air conditioners.. so not a problem
Last week or so of December was quite chilly, down to 11C one night. ! Unusual.
I live in Burnaby, BC, the temperature is a cool 5° C., and I’ll take lots of Aussie heat. My bill for electric heat for Oct-Dec is $411. BC Hydro charges only11 cents per kWh.
When we lived in Britain, even with our wood fire burning scrap wood bought off the back of a truck, our heating bill for February regularly hit $800. The area was too damp, too much water in the soil to insulate the walls. If we had tried to put cavity wall insulation in the walls would have wicked up all the moisture and burst.
One of the reasons we moved to a warm part of Australia, even though Australia is as crazy as Britain about climate change, is at least in subtropical Australia we could live all year round without home heating if electricity became too expensive.
After we left, Bojo cracked down on burning cheap wood in built up areas. I have no idea how people survive in Britain these days.
So when are you getting rid of “Grooming Gang” Starmer and his giggling sidekick Mad Ed?
Love walking outside on a cold winter morning and smelling wood smoke for local fire places. 🙂
HP wrote: “My bill for electric heat“
3 months? and that must include cooking, lights, computer, dish washer(?), clothes(?), etc.
Central Ontario where I live has been buried under more than a metre of snow over the past week. Many people around Lake Simcoe have been immobilized until the snowplow comes around. At least part of this blizzard has been driven by 80 km winds.
The last COP held in Montreal in 2005 was much, much warmer than this frigid hell.
Pulling oil from under the rain forest would be far more desirable than mowing it down for wind and solar farms.
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As an aside, the billion dollars invested in South Australia’s solar farms returned AUD1100 (all in subsidies). yesterday as rooftops stole their demand. They produced for 30 minutes out of a possible 8 hours due to curtailment for most of the day. South Australia also set a record low price at MINUS $328/MWh.
South Australian rooftops powered the State for 5 hours.
The entire NEM grid was close to collapse for want of demand. The prices across the NEM went highly negative from mid morning till mid afternoon.to force generators out of the system and encourage more load.
So they were to concentrate on deforestation right after cutting a large swatch of the Amazon rainforest to provide access to the conference center???
When I visited the Dominican Republic the locals explained the president was elected on the basis of entertainment value, how many high profile celebrity affairs he could have, because nobody believed any promises to make life better.
I’m thinking maybe Brazil is moving in the same direction as the Dominican.
What a wonderful way to make your country better. NOT!
Well…
“At the end of COP30, it was clear that outcomes did not match the expectations set”
Actually, it achieved just about exactly what was expected.. NOTHING