Beyond Belém: Where next for global climate policy after COP30 and the Santa Marta summit?

Please join climate experts from the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures for a panel event on the future of global climate governance.

Location: Baines Wing Miall LT (2.34) or online participation

The dust has settled on the last climate summit COP30 in Belém (Brazil) but the path toward 2035 and beyond is anything but clear. The US is leaving the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change as the rate of global emissions continues to rise and the world appears to be fragmenting  into a multipolar and more openly fractious melee.

At the same time, more ambitious countries are gathering 2026 in Santa Marta (Colombia) for the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels and COP30 made incremental progress in key areas.

This session aims to bring together expertise on climate science and politics and provide reflections from our participants and observers attending the recent international climate summits.

Panel members:

• Dr Elliott Johnson (Priestley Centre for Climate Futures) shares immediate takeaways from the Santa Marta conference.

• Prof. Richard Beardsworth (POLIS/Priestley) on the political breakthroughs and bottlenecks of COP30.

• Prof. Viktoria Spaiser offers a  perspective on social-political tipping points and the future of global climate governance after Belém.

• Prof. Jan Selby (POLIS) on the mood at Santa Marta, shifting geopolitics and the Iran war.

• Dr Danielle Young (online) Current US politics of science and the future of international institutions and interventions.

Chair: Olaf Corry, Prof of Global Security Challenges, POLIS, University of Leeds.

Please sign up here.

Refreshments served afterwards for those present (please sign up for numbers).