Opinion: COP30: Another Failed Climate Junket

November 26, 2025

The 30th UN Climate Summit has come and gone, and the many private jets have returned from Brazil having accomplished nothing new. What we saw for two weeks of COP30 was the same, old, doomsday prophecies. “World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds,” blared one headline from The Guardian, while another declared “Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit.”