As COP results fall short, national action plans needed

The United Nations climate change conference, known as COP30, recently held in Brazil, was a landmark one. It was the tenth since the Paris Conference, in which a binding agreement was reached to limit the rise in average temperature to below two degrees, and it was the first time that the US was absent.

Progress in combating climate change is mixed. On the one hand, the penetration of renewable energy sources (RES) has been spectacular: prices, especially of solar energy, have fallen sharply...