Jacinda Arden, Carlos Lopes, Laurence Tubiana

Jacinda Arden, C Lopes, L Tubiana et al.

Arden, Lopes, Tubiana

This commentary is signed by Adnan Amin, CEO of COP28; Arunabha Ghosh, CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water; Carlos Lopes, Chair of the African Climate Foundation; Jacinda Ardern, former Prime Minister of New Zealand; Jonathan Pershing, former US Special Envoy for Climate Change; Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation; and Patricia Espinosa, former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC. The authors are COP30 Brazilian Presidency Special Envoys for Strategic Regions.

 

Jacinda Arden is a Former Prime Minister of New Zealand

 

Carlos Lopes is a former UN under-secretary-general and former executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, is an honorary professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town, a visiting professor at Sciences Po, and the African Union’s High Representative for Relations with Europe. He is the author of The Self-Deception Trap: Exploring the Economic Dimensions of Charity Dependency within Africa-Europe Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

 

 

Laurence Tubiana is former French ambassador to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is CEO of the European Climate Foundation and a professor at the École Normale Supérieure.

COPs often chase bold deals, but implementation rarely matches ambition. Brazil’s COP30 must focus on delivery, not spectacle, write Jacinda Ardern et al.

24 July, 2025