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2025
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Outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference - Belém (COP30) (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, COP30 gives us a true reflection of the world in which we live: competitive, uncertain, frustrating, without traditional leaderships, but, at the same time, still able to sit at the table and talk about the climate and build a common horizon. We have had new protagonists in Belém and that must be celebrated: indigenous peoples, women, civil society, the local world and also new issues that have been at the forefront of the climate conversation, especially adaptation. That's very good news. The bad news is that we are unable to mention the big elephant in the room, that of fossil fuels. It is enormously frustrating to see the enormous addiction of our economy and the enormous resistances and interests behind the ultimate reason for climate change. And the third thing is the great opportunity that lets us see the leadership we've had. I would like to congratulate you, Commissioner, on the great opportunity that Europe and Latin America have had in the eighty countries that sought a horizon without fossil fuels. Of course, leadership is not proclaimed, it is exercised and we have to continue exercising it in our internal agenda.