Saturday's agreement at the COP30 climate summit is far from providing sufficient answers to either greenhouse gas emissions or protecting the world's poorest countries from climate change. This is the opinion of a number of NGOs.
- Another COP will end up as a thin cup of tea, says John Nordbo, climate advisor at Care.
He points out that the final agreement text does not oblige the world to make progress towards the necessary phasing out of fossil fuels. Nor does it provide any guarantees that the world's rich countries will provide the financing that poor countries desperately need to resist climate change. Instead, the world's rich countries are urged to triple their support for climate adaptation.
- It leaves a big gap in the global climate effort, he says.
The International Cooperation also looks at the agreement with frowns. Here they call it a "huge disappointment" that the climate summit ends without an agreement on a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels.
- In a situation where we so need leadership to deal with the escalating climate crisis, it is deeply disturbing that world leaders are unable to rise to the task, says senior advisor Katrine Ehnhuus from Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke.
If you ask DanChurchAid, there are also positive aspects in the agreement. Here, climate advisor Mattias Söderberg highlights that the target for money for climate adaptation has been increased after all and calls it a “breakthrough”.
- Now the rich countries must show that they are serious and actually increase their support for adaptation, he says.
At the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, the world community agreed that renewable energy must be tripled, that energy efficiency must be doubled and that society must be transitioned away from fossil fuels.
But where the EU had hoped for a clear roadmap for the implementation of this, the Confederation of Danish Industry is now disappointed that there is “no effective follow-up” on the targets.
- It is a disappointment, and it endangers the Paris target at a time when we need to succeed more than ever. At best, we stand still – at worst, it is a step backwards, says climate director Anne Høyer Simonsen.
Brazilian President Lula has marked the climate summit as a forest COP that should show a path towards deforestation of the large rainforests and forest areas that function as CO2 stores. But it has not ended with the agreement in this area that several NGOs had hoped for.
- It seems paradoxical that the whole world met in the rainforest, when COP30 still failed to translate the talks on deforestation and agriculture into concrete decisions, says political advisor Mette Susgaard from Dyrenes Beskyttelse.
The organization Verdens Skove is also dissatisfied.
- For me, COP30 is a huge anticlimax. It should have been the big forest COP, and here on the edge of the Amazon, Lula had created massive expectations. That is why the disappointment is so great, says political advisor Pil Christensen.
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