Thanks, written in a haste - so thanks for the correction 🫶

The question is whether the COP30 Brazil Presidency has the courage, and the support to turn this COP into a #Mutirão Pact: a cooperative “race to the top” across key issues, rather than another procedural battlefield.

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3️⃣ Unilateral trade measures: Many developing countries see these threatening. Yet the charge is led by Saudi Arabia, hardly a champion of climate ambition who is trying to abuse justified worries to derail the talks.

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2️⃣ Public climate finance: Developing countries are pushing hard for binding public-finance obligations under Article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement. Developed countries, meanwhile, want to fold this into the broader NCQG framework avoiding a new agenda item altogether.
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1️⃣ The ambition gap: A broad coalition (AOSIS, LDCs, AILAC, EIG, EU, UK, Norway, Canada, New Zealand, Chile, RMI, South Africa, Singapore, Switzerland) wants a clear decision responding to the UN’s NDC synthesis report & the glaring shortfall in ambition. Resistance from the Arab Group & LMDC.
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there is tons of shortcomings - BUT we are far better off with than without; before the Paris Agreement we were heading for 4+ degrees of warming now its 2+ degrees
thats still way off, but man still so much better than before.