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Published on: 27 November 2025

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COP30

COP30’s Global ‘Collective Effort’—Fragments of progress

Environment analysis: By the Saturday morning after the 30th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) in Brazil should have wrapped up, the parties finally struck an accord. It is to be called the ‘Global Mutirão: Uniting humanity in a global mobilisation against climate change’. ‘Global Mutirão’, taken from the Tupi-Guarani tongue, signalled a COP framed as one of delivery and action. The outcome was a pact that, with intent, kept the multilateral machinery going and yielded shards of progress, yet omitted any explicit mention of fossil fuels or forests—despite the meeting taking place in the Amazon. This piece outlines the principal developments from COP30. Authored by Estelle Dehon KC, barrister, Cornerstone Barrister...

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