I’m not in Belém, Brazil, for COP30, and surprisingly, that makes me a little sad.
As a specialist in the climate and nature crisis, I’ve been to multiple COPs (Conference of the Parties). From Glasgow to Dubai, I’ve held different roles: onstage hosting discussions on coral protection, through to last-minute, high-stress speech rewrites for VIPs – one time, I stuck script amendments on with eyelash glue. Necessity is the mother of invention, especially at COPs, when you’re often in a far-flung destination with the wrong currency for the coffee machine.
