If there was one clear lesson from the 30th Climate Change Conference it is that governments are incapable of solving the climate crisis. If they were able and willing, it would not have needed 30 expensive, fossil fuel-guzzling meetings to do so. But yet another failure is the outcome of the COP30 at Belem, Brazil, that concluded on November 21.

Months of preparation and two weeks of hundreds of government delegates debating every word have resulted in an agreement that has a couple of tiny advances and two massive regressions.

The advances are a bit more money for “developing” countries to deal with the climate crisis and the inclusion of text on “just transition” to ensure that workers and others are not adversely affected by the movement towards a more climate-sensitive economy. The

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