In this blog, I present the questions that I put to the Presidency Youth Climate Champion (PYCC), Marcele Oliveira, before and after COP30. Marcele was appointed by the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in May 2025. This role represents an important step in attempts to strengthen meaningful youth participation in global climate READ MORE
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COP30: Expectations, hopes, and the reality I experienced at yet another COP.
According to André Corrêa do Lago, COP30 would be the COP of implementation, of change, and the one that would bring deep reflections and concrete actions among countries. In one of his letters, he used the word “mutirão“, a collective effort, highlighting the importance of uniting all nations around a common cause. This gave me a great deal READ MORE
An Analysis of the COP30 Presidency’s Strategy
In the last blog posted, I shared the responses that Brazil’s COP30 Presidency provided to questions I sent them as part of my Master’s research. These questions aimed to better understand how Brazil is navigating significant contradictions in its climate strategy regarding agribusiness, oil, and Indigenous peoples on the path to the Amazon climate summit. READ MORE
Key questions I put to the Brazilian COP30 Presidency on agribusiness, oil extraction, and Indigenous Participation
As part of my MA dissertation research into Brazil’s presidency of COP30 and Brazilian leadership, I was able to formulate and send to the COP30 Presidency a set of interview questions. My questions aimed to help me to understand the dilemmas posed to Brazil’s leadership of global climate change diplomacy by domestic agribusiness and the READ MORE
What are the key issues surrounding COP30 for those leading the process?
The next UN climate conference is only weeks away. With COP30 nearly upon us, are you wondering what the thorniest issues shaping the negotiations and potential outcomes are? In this blog, I provide an overview of some of the topics and issues being most hotly debated in the lead up to this event, as identified READ MORE
My participation in the COPs transformed my outlook, helping me understand my role as a young person in the fight against climate change
My first COP was COP26. I went with the goal of understanding exactly what a Conference of the Parties or COP was. I was lucky because it took place in the city of Edinburgh, in Scotland, and I was already living in Wales, studying International Relations and Climate Change at Aberystwyth University. I arrived at READ MORE