THE Brazilian Presidency vision of this year’s Climate Change Conference (COP30) as the “implementation COP” underscored the urgency of moving commitments to concrete action.
This imperative echoes concerns of earlier milestones, from the Brundtland Commission’s “Our Common Future” (1987), which framed sustainable development as a global priority, to the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, which birthed the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (U CCC).
