Global March of Indigenous Peoples – The Answer is Us, a side event at COP30. Agência Brasil/Bruno Peres Global March of Indigenous Peoples – The Answer is Us, a side event at COP30. The last week of COP30 has begun in Belém with a palpable sense of urgency. Ministers and senior officials are now stepping into the spotlight, as negotiations move from technical wrangling to political decision-making. The stakes? Nothing less than charting a credible path to climate justice in a world running out of time.
UN climate chief Simon Stiell set the tone on Monday:
“There is a deep awareness of what’s at stake, and the need to show climate cooperation standing firm in a fractured world.” His warning was blunt: “There is no time to lose with delays and obstruction.”
For the next two days, ministers will lay out their positions in what is often the most charged phase of the summit. Mr. Stiell urged delegations to tackle the hardest issues now – not in a last-minute scramble. “There is no time to waste with tactical delays or stonewalling,” he said, and added: “The time for performative diplomacy has now passed.”
The President of the UN General Assembly echoed that urgency, reminding negotiators that despite “headwinds” and the many “ebbs and flows” of climate talks, they “do not have the luxury of wallowing when people are counting on them.”
Annalena Baerbock struck a note of optimism, pointing to unstoppable momentum in renewables and innovation: “The money exists but needs to be redirected.” She highlighted a stark figure: developing countries paid $1.4 trillion last year in external debt service – funds that could transform climate action if channeled into clean energy and resilience.
Speaking to reporters, Ms. Baerbock recalled that on Sunday she had taken a 30-minute boat ride from Belém to visit Combu Island. There, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, she met with local Indigenous communities “who are showing how sustainable development, economic growth, and protection of the forest can go hand-in-hand.” This, she said, “underlines again that climate action is not a ‘nice to have’. It’s not a charity. Climate action is in all of our security and economic interests.”
The 30th edition of the annual UN climate summit opened last Monday on 10 November and is set to wrap up this coming Friday.
Source: The UN
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