The only COP that truly fails is the one the world walks away from
Stanley Lam1 December, 2025
The 30th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP30) concluded on 22 November 2025 in Belém, Brazil, with all 195 Parties endorsing the widely criticised Belém Package. Ten years on from the adoption of the Paris Agreement at COP21 in 2015, the world is confronting an uncomfortable question: has the COP process delivered the transformation it promised, or is it becoming a cycle of incrementalism dressed up as progress?
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