The COP30 climate talks are under way In Brazil. What is the point of the conference?

<p>COP30, which began this week in Belém, Brazil, marks a decade since the Paris Agreement was adopted at COP21 in 2015. It’s being billed as the “implementation COP”: instead of grand new announcements of international agreements, governments are supposed to be focused on delivering on the commitments they have already made.&nbsp;</p><p>Host Ed Crooks and regular guest Amy Myers Jaffe welcome back&nbsp;<strong>Amy Harder</strong>, National Energy Correspondent at Axios. She says not every COP is created equally, and “this is definitely one of those COPs that are more of an ebb than a flow.”</p><p>But that said, it doesn’t mean COP30 will inevitably be unproductive. Amy Myers Jaffe, who is the Director of NYU’s Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab, argues that COP30 “could wind up over time being seen as a more successful meeting than people are currently thinking it will be.”</p><p>Instead of a new comprehensive global framework, the objectives for this year’s talks will be ...