December 2, 2025
As hurricanes, floods and fires ravage the planet, so too was COP30 in Brazil. Further to the previous month’s editorial suggesting that the climate justice argument for financing natural disaster recovery and climate adaptation more broadly could benefit from some adjustment towards a climate compassion approach, here we are with yet another disappointing COP outcome; failure to commit to a fossil fuel phase-out, failure to collectively commit to action to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C, and failure to agree on who pays for climate adaptation, though rich countries tripled their commitment to low income countries to USD300 billion annually by 2035. Whether this will actually materialize is anyone’s guess.
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