Can you please stop the weather?
" Earth is speaking in tongues, and no one understands. " The Baku to Belem roadmap to spend $1.3 trillion per year was put forward during the leaders’ summit that preceded the formal opening of COP30. As expected, it has become the focal point as we enter the second week of negotiations. Roadmaps are an attractive instrument for negotiations that appear to be stuck, but as Brazil’s Environmental Minister put it: When we have a terrain or environment that is quite grim, it is good that we have a map. But the map does not force us to travel, or to climb. Scientist Johan Rockström offered the usual grim warning from the science community : We’re heading towards 2.5°C if we implement all the Nationally Determined Contributions that are here at COP 30 in Belém. But we are actually in a business-as-usual pathway all the way up to 3°C by the end of the century. Now, just a reminder again—3°C—the last time we had that temperature on planet Earth, you have to go … 4 million years...
