Britain’s exit from the European Union, Donald Trump, Kofid 19, Russia’s war on Ukraine, Trump 2.0: During the contract since the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement, discussions on global warming have become more heated, and often unfair.

I saw this as head of Greenpeace International – Working with Environmentalists and Climate Junior on the ground – as the Secretary of Germany for climate policy and special envoy for international climate work.

The Paris Agreement is an agreement that all countries-whether they were fossil fuel producers, island states or the richest economies of the world-negotiated and ratified in record time. It combines effective measurement, monitoring and flexibility for countries to determine their own plans to counter climate change and place them.

Every five years, all governments are required to do more. To date, the surprise of many, the vast majority of governments have already done so.

To estimate the effectiveness of the Paris Agreement, he thought that renewable energy sources are composed 92.5 % Among all the new installed electricity capacity in 2024, or 75 percent of winds and new photovoltaic solar energy (photovoltaic) provides cheaper energy than coal, gas and current oil. All this could not be conceived in 2015.

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This makes COP30 a major moment that leaders must confirm, intensify and accelerate their obligations towards the Paris Climate Agreement. This means committing to connecting COP28 goals to update energy systems, moving away from fossil fuels, and increasing renewable energy sources.

The acceleration of the green transition occurs under political systems and various economic models – evidence that clean energy is not an ideological issue. Countries adopt renewable energy sources because they work: clean energy drives growth, enhances competitiveness, reduces energy fluctuation, and improves the quality of life.

It is true that the world is not on the right path to achieving its climatic goals, and the destructive effects of global warming appear faster than many of us expected. But the undeniable progress since 2015 provides a reason for hope for more progress.

But it is also clear that the Paris Agreement faces its most difficult challenge. War, conflict and tense public finance (partly due to the tremendous costs of the epidemic) makes governments careful. The international system that was built after World War II is shaken to its foundations.

A major test of the Paris Convention is taking place this week at the United Nations General Assembly, where all countries offer their national climate plans, a process that ends in Belim, Brazil at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) later this year.

Despite the state of frustrated climatic discussions today, I am optimistic that the collective spirit that has been built over the past decade is now quietly, but it is deliberately working to unify the gains that have been achieved and built on.

Brazilians are releasing this MotiraoIt is difficult to translate. I am thinking of “gathering” to address a problem. With the spread of fires, drought intensifies, floods overwhelmed peoples’ homes all over the world, and this is what we should do.

It is understood that the interests of fossil fuel-and the Trump administration-do not want anything like that. They did not ignore the return of wires in the global economy, and while they seem to be surprised and worried that the matter is going faster than any of them expected, but they are not ready to accept their inevitable retreat at their hands. After all, the Trump administration is courageously to restore fossil fuels and destroy not only the clean energy of America, but also foreign green competition for American coal and oil.

This makes COP30 a major moment that leaders must confirm, intensify and accelerate their obligations towards the Paris Climate Agreement. This means committing to connecting COP28 goals to update energy systems, moving away from fossil fuels, and increasing renewable energy sources. This means raising the removal of forests to zero by 2030. This means achieving the agreed goals of climate financing. Investors need to know where to put their bets.

If the national plans for each country do not maintain the maintenance of global warming are less than the goal of the Paris Agreement of 1.5 ° C (relative to the pre -industrial levels), leaders must adhere to bridging the gap with a set of available means. But to achieve a fair energy transmission requires the development of a set of solutions specified on networks, storage and local renewable energy systems with radio with producers and consumers of fossil fuel to accelerate the transition away from it.

Certainly, this will require a new financing mechanism so that the two countries can invest in preserving forests. Brazil’s tropical forest facility can be a change in the game. This will also require the wealthy countries to comply at at least, if not three times, its financing for adaptation. Regional banks and the World Bank must adhere to combining flexibility measures into all infrastructure projects.

This is a tremendous opportunity for Brazil to support her legacy as a hero for the most vulnerable societies in all countries. Brazilian President Louise Insio Lula da Silva It can be remembered not only at home to raise millions of poverty but also to protect our grandchildren from environmental and economic destruction.

Jennifer Morgan, the former German state secretary and special envoy to the International Climate Work, is the former international executive of Greenpeace International.

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