As COP30 Nears, We Need All Effective Climate Solutions By Gabriel Labbate Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.

Just like every financial advisor teaches the same lesson: diversify to manage risk and improve returns. Climate strategy is no different. No single approach—technological or nature-based—can deliver the speed, scale, and durability we need, argues Gabriel Labbate, head of the Climate Mitigation Unit at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/as-cop30-nears-we-need-all-effective-climate-solutions/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=US_Skips_HighLevel_Presence_at_COP_Climate_Summit_Whats_Now_Needed_is_Political_Courage_Says_UN_SG_G NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 3 2025 (IPS) - A new global study has challenged a key assumption in climate planning: that the planet’s geological “carbon vault” is vast enough to hold all the carbon dioxide (CO₂) we might one day choose to bury underground after we remove it from the atmosphere. It isn’t. Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.