The COP30 Malawi delegation in Belém, Brazil, was reflective of the increased vulnerability of the country to the effects of climate change. At the same time, it was also an indicator of an increasing determination of the country to play an active role in the global climate governance. As a least-developed country with a dire […]
Category: Climate Diplomacy
Why Egypt Needs More Than Words From COP30
In the world we live in, we often see climate summits as grand stages. We watch world leaders travel to distant cities to just to sign papers and shake hands. It feels like a ritual, as it is clean and distant from reality. It feels like the world of words that seems to exist nowhere […]
Malawi’s Strategic Climate Diplomacy at COP30
Leading the Charge for Climate Justice Malawi, one of the least developed countries (LDCs) on the planet, was among the vocal and strategic countries at COP 30 in Belém, Brazil. The Malawian delegation made the Malawi climate diplomacy based on the urgency, justice, and tangible assistance, under the leadership of the Minister of Natural Resources, […]
Floating Diplomacy
What COP30’s Cruise-Ship Solution Reveals About Climate Justice and Global Power A solemn sight from the COP30 occurred at the gangways of the Outeiro Port, approximately 20 kilometres from the conference centre of Belém. UN badge clad delegates descend off the Costa Diadema and MSC Seaview, carrying laptops and coffee, being ferried between floating hotels […]
The Gambian Delegation’s performance at COP30 in Belem, Brazil, 2025
What is COP? First of all, it is necessary to comprehend the meaning of COP. Conference of the Parties to the Convention is the abbreviation of COP or the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a treaty that was adopted in 1992 and officially recognized climate change as a threat to the world. The […]
Sierra Leone a Leading Contributor to the COP30 in Belem, Brazil
COP30 in Belem, Brazil in November 2025 was a critical pivot ten years later in the Paris Agreement. Sierra Leone is among the most vulnerable countries to the effects of climate and has made minimal emissions gave significant contributions. The summit was not about spending time in a long dialogue, but about acquiring immediate and […]
Equity or Exclusion? Indonesia’s Rejection of the Belém Roadmap
A decade after the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 30th Conference of the Parties or COP30 was held in Belém, Brazil. Nations and the global community gathered with one singular focus of turning pledges into actions, especially discussing the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) and climate finance. From the COP30 a lot of outcomes were […]
Afghanistan’s Exclusion from COP30: A crisis of climate Justice
The case of Afghanistan illustrates a profound injustice in global climate governance: despite contributing a negligible 0.07% of global emissions, the country is ranked among the ten most vulnerable worldwide, yet remains one of the least prepared to adapt. This stark vulnerability shows that Afghanistan’s absence from the recent Conference of the Parties (COP30) in […]
Carbon Sink to Carbon Source
Why the Amazon Transformation is a Menace to Man. The Amazon rainforest is popularly referred to as the lungs of the earth and has a long history of being the greatest carbon keystone to the human race. This massive eco system has been capturing billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over the […]
When the State Can No Longer Find Its People
Climate-induced floods and the Quiet Unravelling of Citizenship When the monsoon rains started falling at the end of 2025, they did not knock outside the doors in a polite way, they wiped whole neighbourhoods off the face of the earth. In central Viet Nam, a single meteorological station had over 1,700 mm of precipitation on […]