After COP30 the right must rediscover its faith in science

COP30 – It ends this weekend and has lasted two weeks and it’s probably right to say some (but by no means all) of the world’s attention has been focused on Brazil, as multiple discussions were held on the future of climate policy.

Increasingly, however, an under the surface disconnect has been brewing.

This year, for the first time in my lifetime, it seems the pendulum has swung against the global consensus on climate action. As Starmer put it recently, “the consensus is gone” on treating fighting climate change as a shared global endeavour — and much of that fracture has been driven by the right.