Analysis of climate leadership post-Belém highlights the contrasting political approaches in cooperation and sovereignty.
Two worlds, one test: Climate leadership after Belém Professor Richard Beardsworth analyses climate leadership after Belém, focusing on managing the fossil fuel transition beyond COP30. In an earlier reflection ahead of COP30, I argued that Belém would test which of two co-existing political logics was gaining ground: a multilateral, rules- based world seeking cooperative leadership around shared planetary risks, and a centrifugal, sovereignty- protective world treating climate obligations as intrusive or optional. Belém delivered that test, but not in the way headlines suggested.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Richard Beardsworth (2026) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: