🚨Planetary scientists have warned President Lula today that Cop30 must act decisively because the world is at a crossroads: protect people and life or the fossil fuel industry,l. “We are already facing danger,” they warn in a statement on the state of negotiations, which take place against a backdrop of “suffering for billions of people and rapidly approaching tipping points in the Amazon and the Tropical Coral Reef systems and many others.” Emissions must start to bend next year, they say, and then continue to fall steadily in the decades ahead: “We need to start, now, to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, by at least 5% per year. This must happen in order to have a chance to avoid unmanageable and extremely costly climate impacts affecting all people in the world.” The signatories include several of the world’s leading authorities on planetary science, forests and oceans: Carlos Nobre from Science Panel of the Amazon; Fatima Denton of United Nations University; Johan Rockström of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; Marina Hirota; Instituto Serrapilheira; Paulo Artaxo - Universidade de São Paulo; Piers Forster of the University of Leeds; and Thelma Krug, who is Chair of the COP30 Science Council. They say this is the first time that a COP presidency has involved scientists in the preparation of a climate conference and then provided a pavilion for them to share their findings and opportunities to provide updates to the negotiators. Bearing in mind the gravity of the threat, their latest report says action needs to be accelerated: “We need to be as close as possible to absolute zero fossil fuel emissions by 2040, the latest by 2045. This means globally no new fossil fuel investments, removing all subsidies from fossil fuels and a global plan on how to phase in renewable and low-carbon energy sources in a just way, and phase out fossil fuels quickly.” theguardian.com/environment/…