World leaders are preparing to gather in Brazil for COP30 and plan climate actions, something becoming increasingly necessary to limit the consequences of climate change while attempting to mitigate it.

As the climate summit approaches, a retrospective look at decades of climate diplomacy reveals progress but too little too late.

30 YEARS ON, EMISSIONS STILL RISE

An analysis shows that global greenhouse-gas emissions are 34 percent higher today than they were when the first COP was held in 1995. Although it is lower than the 64 per cent rise in years before that, it is still an alarming trend, contributing significantly to humanity's collective walk to several climate tipping points, threatening the planet's stability.

To make matters worse, the world is stubbornly continuing the use

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