Opinion

ANNUAL GLOBAL CLIMATE GATHERING, CONFERENCE OF PARTY HAS A BLIND SPOT

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2 months ago

February 6, 2026

If you have ever bothered why climate actions, climate justice, carbon offset including carbon credit have been crawling, then this write up is for you.

This is because the vulnerable countries know themselves better and must act with intent.

They should not retire climate actions because of lobbyists and trends but because they can no longer match what the planet has become, the world need a gentle planetary reset where clarity must meet confidence.

Conference of Parties has become a funny gathering where everyone appears to be serious in planning, organising and resetting yet half the time, members are just trying to remember what happened in the previous COPs and what promises were made.

Personally, I always feel like each COP is walking with one foot in the previous one and one foot in the new one hoping they both agree in one direction.

Here we are, the world is struggling with so much extreme weather conditions; massive snow in the northern hemisphere, flooding in Morocco and Mozambique and excessive heat in the sahel.

As 2026 move on, we have to keep standing, keep moving and keep showing up because there are no better way to deal with new extreme weather patterns than climate justice, climate actions, carbon credit and offset, mitigation and adaptation including planting of trees.

Our planet need to be rooted in longevity and evolution and climate actions should not be limited to moment of hype during COPs.

It should be about the slow steady work that builds the planet and environment back from desertification, deforestation and degradation because the planet and environment has danced through exploration, exploitation and greed.

They now need seasons of restoration and reinvention and humanity must hold her line by refining carbon credit, carbon offset, climate actions, mitigation and adaptation.

The world must understand the planet by creating preparedness and responses that outlive the noise of the various gatherings.

Decades after the commencement of the COPs and a decade after the Paris Agreement, there should be global efforts and commitments that set the era apart.

Naturally, ten years of the Paris Agreement should nudge the world to a bigger question; what will it really take for global climate justice and action to reach it’s full potential as we are in an era where fossil fuels lobbyists are being hailed in the world.

We all knew the challenges behind the curtains; lack of commitment to promises, insufficient climate financing opening of new oil wells, climate denials, income distribution gaps, promises that freezes after the closing of the annual meeting and developed countries that mysteriously stopped answering the vulnerable countries when the conference door closed.

These features dont shy away from climate realities but they also highlight waiting opportunities to be harnessed.

For instance, the Paris Agreement is full of brilliance, what it needs now is structure, strategy and the commitment to making every day wear climate justice and climate actions

.As we deal with the new realities of extreme weather conditions, I hope this write up will give us something to think about, something to aspire to because massive snow and flooding were just the warm up as we get into the main weather events in 2026. Let’s align governance with the aspirations of the people.