Calling for Water-Based Design Strategies after COP30 in Belém

Abstract

The yearly Climate Conference of the Parties (COP), also known as the UN Climate Conference and COP30, is coming up November 10–21, 2025. This will be the 30th meeting since the first one in 1995 in Berlin, and 34 years since the first report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published in 1990. This year, the meeting will take place in Belém do Pará, Brazil, the natural gateway to the Amazon. After these last three decades, analyses indicate an international scenario that is far from what is necessary to guarantee the health of the planet and its inhabitants. We should perhaps be discouraged by the prospects for COP30 in Belém.