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Antigua and Barbuda’s Climate Change Ambassador, Ruleta Camacho-Thomas, has warned that the final agreement at COP30 falls short of the ambition required to protect the world’s most vulnerable nations, despite negotiators avoiding any major backsliding.
Speaking to BBC News from Belém, Brazil, Camacho-Thomas said progress at the summit had been “limited”, with negotiators failing to significantly advance commitments on mitigation, adaptation or climate finance.
“We’re extremely disappointed by the lack of ambition,” she said. “Not only on mitigation, but also on adaptation finance. We had expected a lot more from our partners.”
The ambassador criticised the omission of fossil fuels from the final text and noted that deforestation received only a single mention.
Still, she stressed that the process remained intact and said negotiators had at least prevented a regression from previous agreements.
“We didn’t backtrack. We are on an even keel,” she added.
Camacho-Thomas acknowledged that language on tripling adaptation finance represented a “hard-fought” outcome, but insisted the pledge remains inadequate.
“That’s not enough,” she said. “It’s not where we started in the negotiations, but it is an outcome we can build on. What matters now is implementation — not just of this COP, but previous COPs as well.”
Asked why the meeting billed as the “implementation COP” produced so few concrete actions, Camacho-Thomas said the talks had exposed a deeper challenge.
“This was the COP of truth,” she said. “There are still countries unwilling to take action. There is still a lot of distrust.”
She expressed cautious confidence that Brazil, which holds the presidency until COP31 in Turkey next year, would push countries to raise ambition in the months ahead. But she emphasised that small island states could not afford to wait.
“We cannot just wait until the next COP to see what happens,” she said. “Small island states will have to be very engaged — on fossil fuel discussions, on adaptation ambition, and with partners who share high ambition.”
Despite frustration with the pace of negotiations, Camacho-Thomas defended the COP process.
“It is very slow, much slower than what we need,” she said. “But without this process, we’d be about two degrees higher than where we are now. It’s the only place where the voices of developing countries and small island states are heard, and where binding decisions can be made.”
With Antigua and Barbuda facing intensifying storms, sea-level rise and mounting climate impacts, the ambassador said her country remains in urgent need of international assistance.
“We have to continue building resilience in our infrastructure to prevent future losses,” she said. “But we cannot do this fast enough to prepare before the next storm. That is why we are pleading for international help — on adaptation, but also on mitigation.”
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🗣️of course it lacks ambition. The COP, Global Warming and Climate Change are all SCAMS. It’s like swapping Barbuda out for Death Valley in the Mojave Desert, as in moving all Barbudans to the Mojave Desert and all of the Vegas Crime families and their businesses to Barbuda.
🗣️the only lack of ambition, that these Climate Change, Global Warming, COP SCAMMERS are displaying is to tell the people the real truth behind these fairy tales from millennia’s ago. Preachers and religions have been SCAMMING the people with BRIMSTONE & HELLFIRE for even longer time periods.
One thing which is definitely not lacking is the way these false prophets aka politicians are spending Antigua and Barbuda scare responses flying all over the human world on high end vacations.
Agree withyou,this environazis trying to Pushing this nepharious stinky/scam agenda..the covi-crap misleading rhe most YES YES PEOPLE (and I believe this since of B.S IDIOTS) will chewing the same from their sodomist bosses
LMao….I grow up hearing those big catastrophics situations…All of them after 50 years it show me that is pure scam and a “lovely way” to use money from others to have a nice life without work. Is just a blend of technical words wrapped in nice cover just to justify the living of thousand of “Climate defenders” They don’t donate a single coin of their wealth..They push others to finance their agenda, they create plenty ONG with high budget in “Other Expenses”. Travels, hotels, meals, Taxis, Office expenses, office rental, vehicle rental, bills, house allowance, events, advertising.. Damm is a lot of money they burn by just chat chat chat…I can chat also, but i don’t get paid for that. They defend their budget for keep chatting and enjoying lavish live with the money of others.. Is laughable….getting paid just for chat. With the money this climate movement burn in the last 60 years is enough to turn the Sahara Desert in a jungle.
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