DIPLOMACY
From Rio 92 to COP30: Brazil wants to take climate diplomacy to the next level
Rio 92 laid the groundwork for much of today’s climate diplomacy. Photo: UN Photo
Brazil’s presidency of COP30, the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Belém, in the Amazonian state of Pará, comes with a clear goal: to finally turn decades of environmental pledges into concrete action. Whether the world has the political will to follow through remains uncertain, but the setting could hardly be more symbolic.
It would be an incredible milestone of a negotiation cycle that began in Brazil itself, at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, best known as Rio 92 or the Earth Summit. There, global leaders forged their first consensus on sustainable development and the urgent need to confront climate change…
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