Swain responds to COP30 claims: now is not the time stop curbing climate emissions

Bill Gates argued in advance of COP30 that global climate change funding should be directed away from efforts to curb climate change emissions, and focused instead to “mitigate the effects of climate change on the world’s poor,” according to Semaphor.

Daniel Swain responded to these remarks, saying “now is not the time to scale back our efforts to address climate change--quite the opposite, as the intensifying consequences have never been clearer.” He wrote, “the notion that the world should shift away from curbing climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions is extraordinarily divorced from the basic facts of the present moment. The last three years have been the warmest in recorded human history, and by a considerable margin — rather than slowing, as some have claimed, the pace of warming has likely increased over the past two decades. … When it comes to the perceived tension between climate adaptation and climate mitigation, the simple reality is this: It’s not a binary choice. We can, and must, do both.”

You can find Daniel’s comments in the article by Semaphor, in full written form on LinkedIn, or watch a video version on his Youtube channel.