This year, Brazil hosts the COP30 in Belém, Pará. Ebetween the 10th and 21st of Novemberand the dome must place our country as hero in the preservation of the Amazon, energy transition and climate financeas efforts to reduce global warming prove increasingly urgent.
A first meeting of the which opened in Berlin, Germany, happened 30 years ago. In it, world leaders concluded that the commitments previously made by the parties were insufficient. Negotiations began there to design a new protocol that would guarantee the reduction of global greenhouse emissions.
Over the years, new instruments have complemented the convention, such as the resulting COP21 in 2015, considered one of the most relevant advances in relation to the climate convention.
In an interview with CNNthe specialist Vitellius BrustolinHarvard researcher and professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense, confirms the importance of COP21 and mentions that in 2015, the summit arrived at “largest environmental agreement in history”in which countries set goals to not let the planet heat up by the year 2099.
However, the expert mentions that it has become a setback in Brazil’s environmental geopolitical agenda and explains that, theoretically, the North American country, having been a great industrial power in the 20th century, has a responsibility towards the planet and the climate changes that need to be adjusted.
Despite this, the professor mentions that Brazil has a natural vocation for address environmental geopolitics at COP30due to the Amazon Forest, since most of it is in Brazilian territory and due to the renewable energy matriceswhich are at an advanced stage, which many countries aim to reach.
Em 2024, the latest edition, countries participating in COP29 agreed in Azerbaijan, host of the summit, on a plan to help poorer countries deal with the impacts of climate change.
Although the value was Criticized by many developing countries as largely insufficient, the agreement was reached after more than two weeks of turbulent negotiations.
Regarding the great challenges for Brazil in hosting COP30, Brustolin highlights that “they are about bringing the world together in favor of this issue of climate change so that the next generations do not inherit a planet devastated by the actions of past generations and by our generation”.
Check out the locations where all the climate convention COPs took place and some of the main resulting agreements:
- Berlin, Germany (1995) – Berlin Mandate
- Geneva, Switzerland (1996)
- Kyoto, Japan (1997) – Kyoto Protocol
- Buenos Aires, Argentina (1998)
- Bonn, Germany (1999)
- The Hague, Netherlands (2000) – Millennium Development Goals
- Marrakesh, Morocco (2001) – Marrakesh Agreements
- Delhi, India (2002)
- Milan, Italy (2003) – Clean Development Mechanism
- Buenos Aires, Argentina (2004) – National Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Montreal, Canada (2005)
- Nairobi, Kenya (2006)
- Bali, Indonesia (2007)
- Poznania, Poland (2008)
- Copenhagen, Denmark (2009) – Copenhagen Agreement
- Cancun, Mexico (2010)
- Durban, South Africa (2011) – Green Climate Fund
- Doha, Qatar (2012) – Doha Convention
- Warsaw, Poland (2013)
- Lima, Peru (2014)
- Paris, France (2015) – Paris Agreement
- Marrakesh, Morocco (2016)
- Bonn, Germany (2017) – Powering Past Coal Alliance and Gender Action Plan
- Katowice, Poland (2018)
- Madrid, Spain (2019)
- Glasgow, Scotland (2021) – Paris Agreement and Carbon Market Rulebook (Article 6)
- Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (2022)
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2023) – Global Carbon Balance
- Baku, Azerbaijan (2024)
- Belém, Brazil (2025)
*With information from Fabíola Sinimbú, from Agência Brasil.
