The Bonn Climate Change Conference in Germany, which takes place this June, acts as a preparatory meeting for the Party Conference (COP), scheduled for November. This year, based in Brazil, COP30 will be held in Belém, Pará, and aims to advance the implementation of the agreements signed in recent years.
To achieve this goal, it takes money, Márcio Astrini, executive secretary of the Climate Observatory, in his Eldorado Radio. The financial issue has been the focus of “stress” at the meeting that began last week in Bonn, where the next COP will be discussed, which will take place in less than five months.
“The meeting did not start very well. The result of the last COP was terrible, and the ghost of a bad conference again haunted the negotiators in Germany this time. The theme that was not resolved (in Baku, COP29) was that of money, which is fundamental in this climate debate,” says Astrini.
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“To get the agreements out of paper and put them into practice, it takes money, especially in developing countries, such as Brazil, which needs to make a huge effort to reduce their environmental aggression and implement new technologies. Some countries need to change their energy matrix, which is very expensive. No money, it doesn’t happen, and money was just what didn’t appear in the last COP,” he adds.
The international conflict environment also entered the negotiating rooms, with the dispute between Israel and Iran and the recent US attack on Iranian nuclear bases, further increasing tensions.
“It is this world in tariff war and war that is in these negotiations, and it is obvious that this environment of aggression, dispute and conflict ends up entering the climate negotiation rooms. Even so, the meetings continue to happen,” says the member of the Climate Observatory.
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The hosting problem in Belém was also present at the Bonn meeting. With less than five months to the COP30, the Brazilian government still does not have a solution capable of receiving the entire public expected for the event. Countries have again said that without a solution they consider not sending delegates to the conference.
