When climate advocacy ignores scientific solutions

COP30 has now concluded without a clear or unified outcome. The negotiations were deeply divisive, but they still amplified calls for stronger climate ambition, greater efforts to halt deforestation and urgent action to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

Climate activists played a central role, championing climate science and urging governments to act with urgency. Yet, many of the same organisations that defended climate science so passionately continued to deny biotechnology at the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (COP-MOP) to the Protocol under the Convention on Biological Diversity.