COP30: Media Interventions by Philippe Delacote

COP30 took place from 10 to 21 November 2025, in Belém, Brazil, marking the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement. The negotiations focused on new climate plans (NDCs) for 2025–2035, reducing emissions to limit warming to +1.5 °C, mobilizing financing for adaptation, and protecting tropical forests.

In this context, Philippe Delacote, Research Director at INRAE and member of BETA, spoke several times in the media to shed light on the economic and environmental issues of this conference.

Opinion in Libération (7 November 2025)

With Anna Creti (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL) et Tara L’Horty (BETA), Philippe Delacote co-authored the opinion « COP30 : redorer le blason des crédits carbone, c’est possible » (“COP30: Restoring the credibility of carbon credits is possible”) sur liberation.fr. The authors call for greater transparency and improved evaluation methods for the mechanism regulating the greenhouse gas emissions market.

Interview in La Nouvelle République (8 November 2025)

When asked about the effectiveness of COPs, the researcher believes that although they struggle to make major progress due to divergent national interests and an international context that is not conducive to multilateralism, they remain necessary for coordinating global climate action.

Read: « Rendez-vous d’intérêts divergents, les COP : des accords mais des espoirs déçus » (“Meetings of diverging interests: COPs, agreements but disappointed hopes”)

Interview with Philonomist (12 November 2025)

Philippe Delacote explains the concept of avoided deforestation, central to the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, a fund launched at COP30 to curb deforestation through financial incentives based on effective forest conservation.

Read: « Déforestation évitée : comment la COP30 veut valoriser les forêts tropicales » (“Avoided deforestation: how COP30 aims to value tropical forests”)

Article in Sciences et Avenir (14 novembre 2025)

In « COP30 : le difficile financement de la lutte contre la déforestation » (“COP30: The difficult financing of the fight against deforestation”), Philippe Delacote revisits the credibility of forest carbon credits. The article cites his recent scientific publication: Delacote, P., Chabé-Ferret, S., Creti, A. et al. “Restoring credibility in carbon offsets through systematic ex post evaluation”, Nature Sustainability, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-025-01589-7