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Speaker at COP30 urges rapid acceleration of climate action, calls for 60% cuts by 2035
Summary
At COP30 in Belén, Speaker 1 said current Nationally Determined Contributions fall short and urged countries to submit stronger NDCs, scale finance and technology support for developing countries, and pursue deep emissions cuts — "Action requires deep emissions cuts 60% by 2035," the speaker said.
At the COP30 plenary in Belén, Speaker 1 addressed President Lula da Silva and delegates, urging urgent acceleration of countries' Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and a step-up in climate finance and technology transfer.
"Science tells us it is still possible to keep temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century," Speaker 1 said, adding that a temporary overshoot in the early 2030s is now likely but "we can manage the scale and duration of that overshoot and bring temperatures back down if you take serious action now." The speaker said, "Action requires deep emissions cuts 60% by 2035 to stay on track to meeting 1.5."
The address framed the Paris Agreement, adopted a decade earlier, as the baseline for global ambition and…
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