The Paris Agreement, the landmark climate treaty signed by every country in the world, is ten years old. Much has changed in the decade since it was adopted. It remains an essential foundation for global climate efforts - but it is not enough.
With large developing countries increasingly central to global climate politics and action, there is a need and an opportunity for new leadership, new coalitions, new structures, and new thinking, to accelerate climate action in a world of multiple overlapping crises.
As leaders travel to Brazil for COP30, Chatham House brings together climate diplomats from the Global South to ask how international cooperation on climate change needs to evolve to be fit for purpose in a turbulent - and increasingly multipolar - world.
Participants will consider questions including:
- What does effective climate cooperation look like, at bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral levels?
- Should developing countries prioritize cheap clean technology imports, or building up their own domestic green industries? What is the role of clean tech FDI?
- What is needed to push climate change back up the geopolitical agenda?
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