COP30: Broken Promises, New Hope — A Call to Turn Words into Action
Former President Michel has contributed an article to the Inter Press Service on the subject of COP30 in Brazil.
"When the world gathered in Glasgow for COP26, the mantra was “building back better.” Two years later, in Sharm El Sheikh, COP27 promised “implementation.” This year, in Belém, Brazil, COP30 arrived with a heavier burden: to finally bridge the chasm between lofty rhetoric and the urgent, measurable steps needed to keep 1.5 °C alive.
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Humanity has the knowledge, technology, and resources. What we need now is the collective political will to use them. Let COP30 be remembered not as another empty summit, but as the turning point where the world chose survival over complacency. The future is not written; we write it with every decision we make today.".