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Happy birthday COP! 🎂
It has been 30 years since the opening of COP1 in Berlin.
These United Nations Climate Conferences – or COPs  - convening nearly all countries of the world have achieved a huge amount since then.
Milestone agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol at COP3 in 1997 and the Paris Agreement at COP21 in 2015 as well as other historic decisions at COPs over the years have strengthened the world’s commitment to confront the global climate crisis, and protect people everywhere.
Just think – without these agreements, we would be headed for up to 5° Celsius of global heating, which most of humanity could not survive.
We're now headed for around 3°C, which is still disastrous, and climate impacts hit countries, economies and people harder every year.
So we need much more progress still.
2025 is a critical year for climate action:
Under the Paris Agreement, all countries need to submit new, more ambitious national climate plans this year, showing how they will cut emissions more strongly and protect people, infrastructure, businesses and communities.
As André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, President-Designate for #COP30 this November in Brazil, urged the world earlier this month:
We need a global mutirão—a collective effort—against climate change and leave our differences behind.
Every minute counts on the road to COP30. Solidarity is the only way.
