COP30 decision "a recipe for delay and confusion"
Tom Mitchell, executive director of IIED, said:
Protest for a people-focused conference at COP30 (Photo: UN Climate Change - Kamran Guliyev, via Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
“This is a serious step backwards – a recipe for delay and confusion that lets the biggest polluters off the hook.
“Not only has the goal of tripling funds for adapting to climate change been pushed five years further away, to 2035, but there's no concrete promise at all. The language is infuriatingly weak.
“Behind the jargon, 'adaptation' is about people’s lives. It means protecting homes, infrastructure, crops and nature from extreme weather and other climate impacts.
“Yet again COP has failed to address the needs of the most vulnerable. That is legally questionable, in light of the recent International Court of Justice advisory opinion on climate change – and morally indefensible.
“We expect COP decisions to move us forward, not leave us with weaker commitments and greater uncertainty.”
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