Reforming these processes by empowering coalitions, enhancing scientific input, and modernising negotiation methods is crucial to address urgent environmental crises effectively

Majority voting, stronger implementation focus, and curbing vested interests are essential to make these summits more effective

The UN’s 30th climate summit, COP30 in Belém, was billed as the COP of truth and implementation. It was an opportunity for the world to move beyond diagnosis to delivery. Instead it revealed a system ...