{"id":418568,"date":"2025-12-25T17:15:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=418568"},"modified":"2025-12-25T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:15:55","slug":"cop30-and-the-art-of-climate-policy-neglect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=418568","title":{"rendered":"COP30 and the Art of Climate-Policy Neglect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"418572\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=418572\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQMyAoGMPtiGFjOddUOfYL0Zi46SUTlrFEZUq4S_j5a0DYScLcrMxy7-HGR_eStxQDjDfTBo2_1-hK_cc-Clgw_zjsyg0D3HOPAUWPLwt4q3DSmEWLLPghBAIBlErQ2k-1.jpeg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"AQMyAoGMPtiGFjOddUOfYL0Zi46SUTlrFEZUq4S_j5a0DYScLcrMxy7-HGR_eStxQDjDfTBo2_1-hK_cc-Clgw_zjsyg0D3HOPAUWPLwt4q3DSmEWLLPghBAIBlErQ2k\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQMyAoGMPtiGFjOddUOfYL0Zi46SUTlrFEZUq4S_j5a0DYScLcrMxy7-HGR_eStxQDjDfTBo2_1-hK_cc-Clgw_zjsyg0D3HOPAUWPLwt4q3DSmEWLLPghBAIBlErQ2k-1.jpeg?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQMyAoGMPtiGFjOddUOfYL0Zi46SUTlrFEZUq4S_j5a0DYScLcrMxy7-HGR_eStxQDjDfTBo2_1-hK_cc-Clgw_zjsyg0D3HOPAUWPLwt4q3DSmEWLLPghBAIBlErQ2k-1.jpeg?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A graphic featuring a green map of the world on a red background with a laurel wreath and the text 'This is Not Working' prominently displayed.\" class=\"wp-image-418572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQMyAoGMPtiGFjOddUOfYL0Zi46SUTlrFEZUq4S_j5a0DYScLcrMxy7-HGR_eStxQDjDfTBo2_1-hK_cc-Clgw_zjsyg0D3HOPAUWPLwt4q3DSmEWLLPghBAIBlErQ2k-1.jpeg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQMyAoGMPtiGFjOddUOfYL0Zi46SUTlrFEZUq4S_j5a0DYScLcrMxy7-HGR_eStxQDjDfTBo2_1-hK_cc-Clgw_zjsyg0D3HOPAUWPLwt4q3DSmEWLLPghBAIBlErQ2k-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQMyAoGMPtiGFjOddUOfYL0Zi46SUTlrFEZUq4S_j5a0DYScLcrMxy7-HGR_eStxQDjDfTBo2_1-hK_cc-Clgw_zjsyg0D3HOPAUWPLwt4q3DSmEWLLPghBAIBlErQ2k-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQMyAoGMPtiGFjOddUOfYL0Zi46SUTlrFEZUq4S_j5a0DYScLcrMxy7-HGR_eStxQDjDfTBo2_1-hK_cc-Clgw_zjsyg0D3HOPAUWPLwt4q3DSmEWLLPghBAIBlErQ2k-1.jpeg?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQMyAoGMPtiGFjOddUOfYL0Zi46SUTlrFEZUq4S_j5a0DYScLcrMxy7-HGR_eStxQDjDfTBo2_1-hK_cc-Clgw_zjsyg0D3HOPAUWPLwt4q3DSmEWLLPghBAIBlErQ2k-1.jpeg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQMyAoGMPtiGFjOddUOfYL0Zi46SUTlrFEZUq4S_j5a0DYScLcrMxy7-HGR_eStxQDjDfTBo2_1-hK_cc-Clgw_zjsyg0D3HOPAUWPLwt4q3DSmEWLLPghBAIBlErQ2k-1.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearwire.com\/articles\/2025\/12\/24\/cop30_and_the_art_of_climate-policy_neglect_153664.html\">RealClearWire<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/realclearwire.com\/authors\/joel_darmstadter\/\">Joel Darmstadter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This November, delegates from nearly 200 countries convened in Brazil for COP30 \u2013 where COP stands for \u201cConference of Parties,\u201d and the number 30 reflects the number of such events since the very first one in Berlin in 1995. Stemming from a UN&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/process-and-meetings\/united-nations-framework-convention-on-climate-change\">statute adopted in 1992<\/a>&nbsp;and bearing the acronym UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), reaching the 30<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;edition of COP would be a triumph if its success was measured on diplomatic endurance. But it\u2019s not, and the conference\u2019s takeaways could have seemingly been predicted before the final gavel \u2013 prioritization of the optics of agreeableness over binding, legally meaningful agreements to address the root cause of climate change: the world\u2019s never-ending coal, oil, and gas emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather, what the world saw in Bel\u00e9m was the continued widening chaos between the COP World and the Energy World \u2013 with the former defined by performative diplomacy and the latter defined by the unrelenting physics of the global economy. What Brazil\u2019s President Lula&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.br\/planalto\/en\/follow-the-government\/speeches-statements\/2025\/11\/speech-by-president-lula-at-the-opening-of-cop30-in-belem-pa\/\">deemed<\/a>&nbsp;the \u201cCOP of Truth\u201d felt more like another COP of capitulation. The conference effectively signaled that despite the escalating urgency of limiting greenhouse warming, the global reliance on fossil fuels will continue \u201cuntil further notice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is tempting to pin the outcome of COP30 on the glaring absence of the United States, led by an administration which has pompously relegated the country\u2019s critical role in the fight against climate change both at home and abroad. Look no further than the administration\u2019s recurrent announcements on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/pressreleases\/interior-unleashes-american-coal-power-bold-move-advance-trump-administration\">unleashing American coal<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.actonclimate.com\/trumptracker\/\">stopping clean energy projects<\/a>&nbsp;in their tracks. But the outcome of a United States-less COP30 \u2013 with lots of rhetoric and pacts but little needle-moving action \u2013 was not new, nor partisan. It was emblematic of a world\u2019s unserious approach to the climate policy plans outlined in COP21\u2019s \u201cParis Accords,\u201d which yielded steadfast, collective commitments to limit the increase in global temperature to under 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or, yet another fossil fuel fakeout. In 2023, I wrote in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\">Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/12\/29\/fossil-fuel-extraction-not-ending\/\">The great fossil fuel phaseout fakeout\u201d<\/a>\u00a0about the Biden administration\u2019s hypocrisy in approving the Alaskan oil-producing Willow Project \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/03\/14\/politics\/willow-project-oil-alaska-explained-climate#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20Willow%20Project,the%20oil%20they%20are%20pursuing.\">projected<\/a>\u00a0to yield 180,000 barrels of oil per day for 30 years \u2013 even as the U.S. delegation to COP28, headed by Vice President Kamala Harris, joined the majority\u2019s resolve to transition away from fossil fuels. Heaven forbid the Biden administration should use political capital to lead on the global stage for a carbon tax \u2013 which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-48512-w\">meta-analyses find<\/a>\u00a0are widely successful in slowing emissions \u2013 or on the domestic stage for an increase of the gas tax,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/digest\/may09\/effect-gasoline-tax-carbon-emissions?page=1&amp;perPage=50\">also proven effective<\/a>. These two measures would have required meaningful political will from the leader of the free world but would have successfully incentivized decarbonization around the world and encouraged an actual transition away from fossil fuels, very much critical for the safety and well-being of future humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cost of this fakeout\u2019s inaction is no longer theoretical. The current global temperature is already hovering around 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, with no sign of abating, paralleled by an ever-rising atmospheric carbon concentration, which now stands at a historic high of roughly 430 parts per million. And with these come the never-ending streamers of record-breaking wildfires, heat waves, flooding, hurricanes, and more, all with much of the world\u2019s most vulnerable populations in the crosshairs of sea-level rise. This is a problem that, in the absence of groundbreaking technology, will get much worse before it gets better \u2013 if it gets better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But none of this is surprising. Many delegates leaving Brazil may have felt disappointment, but once again, it was victory for the status quo. It was a confirmation that the world is unwilling to revisit, relitigate, and reimplement the action plan outlined in Paris 10 years ago, despite this plan never being more urgent or paramount for the future of mankind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And while, of course, the United States\u2019 presence was sorely missed \u2013 with COP30\u2019s fossil fuel interests emboldened, allowing them to dig in their heels \u2013 it feels almost repetitive to recent COP conferences with the country\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once again, the world stands unmoved by the wrath of climate change. The United States\u2019 chair was empty, but even when full, the drilling continued.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This November, delegates from nearly 200 countries convened in Brazil for COP30 \u2013 where COP stands for \u201cConference of Parties,\u201d and the number 30 reflects the number of such events since the very first one in Berlin in 1995. Stemming from a UN\u00a0statute adopted in 1992\u00a0and bearing the acronym UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), reaching the 30th\u00a0edition of COP would be a triumph if its success was measured on diplomatic endurance. 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