A rapid reduction in GHGs is indeed important like you said. But, the sentence in the agreement began with “Recognizing.” In UN jargon, this basically means to acknowledge the need to do something, but isn’t binding and doesn’t commit to anything. In effect, they've simply stated a fact and no more.

11/ I fear we’re a lot closer to that point than many of us would like to acknowledge.

With what little time remains, will we choose to waste it frivolously, or fight for our collective future? That’s the question that each of us needs to answer now.

www.ryanmizzen.com/cop30-analys...

10/ When climate tipping points begin triggering a cascade of further tipping points, when AI has made the population jobless and obsolete and turned us upon one another, then it will be too late for humanity.

9/ If the 8.2 billion people alive now wish to have a chance at a decent future in the face of the simultaneously occurring climate and AI crises, we have to realise that the pathway to achieving that lies with each of us lobbying for the change we need, and doing so urgently.

8/ Therein lies a problem. For as a global society, we’re letting politicians get away with lying and disguising fallacies as possibilities.

Climate chaos seems all but inevitable given the lack of progress at this - the 30th annual attempt to make headway.

7/ And yet… Once again, world leaders mentioned no fewer than five times in the eight page final agreement, their intention to keep “1.5°C within reach.”

6/ A final point of frustration regards the 1.5C Paris agreement target. The scientific community believes we’ve missed our opportunity to hold temperatures below 1.5C.

Indeed, research from Climate Action Tracker shows that based on current pledges, we’re heading for a disastrous 2.6C of warming.

5/ Thus, no roadmap to phase-out fossil fuels was agreed. The final agreement didn’t even mention the phrase “fossil fuels” due to a group of countries including Saudi Arabia and Russia pushing against this. The source of the climate crisis can’t even be mentioned.

4/ It was hoped that the summit would agree to phase-out fossil fuels. 80 nations were in favour, but many petrostates were opposed. As were fossil fuel lobbyists who made up one out of every 25 delegates – the largest concentration of fossil fuel lobbyists in the history of these conferences.

3/ It was reported by @dpcarrington.bsky.social in the Guardian that rising levels of heat kill an average of “one person a minute around the world.”

Meanwhile, climate-related disasters have displaced around 250 million people over the last decade.

2/ We went into this 30th annual summit knowing that CO2 hit RECORD levels in 2024, as did the two other primary greenhouse gases – methane and nitrous oxide.

The WMO reported that the last 11 years (2015 – 2025) have been the 11 warmest on record, with 2023 – 2025 taking the top three spots.

I created a petition to draw attention to this topic. It's about to end with less than 90 signatures.

I sent out a press release to journalists & political reps, and shared it widely - but all to no avail.

There's still time to sign and share it though...

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

"What if I told you I could stop you worrying about climate change, and all you had to do was read one book? Great, you’d say, until I mentioned that the reason you’d stop worrying was because the book says our species only has a few years before it’s wiped out by superintelligent AI anyway."