Navigating Two Worlds: Professor Beardsworth on Leadership Ahead of COP30

Head of the School of Politics and International Studies, Professor Richard Beardsworth, continues his analysis of expectations for COP30 in Belém with an article published by Open Access Government.

Ahead of COP30 in Brazil next month, the article explores how its leadership will need to navigate and reconcile two opposing worlds – one rules-based and co-operative, the other nationalist-populist and centrifugal, where international obligations are increasingly treated as optional. Professor Beardsworth examines how Brazil itself embodies this duality and highlights the pivotal importance of COP30’s outcomes for the future of international climate governance.

‘COP30 in Belém: Leadership between two worlds’, published by Open Access Government, is available to read here.