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COP30, the latest edition of the annual UN climate change conference, is coming at a time of accelerating climate issues and risk. Scientists are increasingly warning that tropical forest systems — especially the Amazon — are approaching a tipping point. Recent assessments also reveal that much of the Amazon is already degraded or deforested to the point that even modest further losses could push it past a key threshold.
This means that the efforts of the next few years will determine whether global warming can be limited to the targets set out in the Paris Agreement. So, next month’s COP30 is critical and should be more than a diplomatic meeting. It must ensure policy, finance and local action proportionate to the scale of the danger.
Hosting the conference in Belem, Brazil, has more than symbolic importance. Holding the negotiations at the edge of the Amazon places the forest, its people and its ecology at the heart of global climate discussions. This should force policymakers and delegates to directly confront what is at risk — not in abstraction but in living ecosystems and communities.
The conference in Brazil must ensure policy, finance and local action proportionate to the scale of the danger
