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The challenge for Latin American civil society to influence the translation of ambition into results at COP30.
The final outcome of COP30 reveals a deep structural tension: while Brazil's status as host country enabled an unprecedented opening of civil society space and territorial mobilization, the formal negotiation process experienced a worrying diplomatic setback, particularly regarding the consensus reached at COP28 in Dubai on abandoning fossil fuels. In this scenario of fragmentation and power asymmetry, Latin American civil society did not act as a monolithic bloc, but rather as an inhabited ecosystem (DeJordy et al., 2020) of influence, heterogeneous and interdependent. The diversity of tactics did not express fragmentation, but rather a functional convergence aimed at sustaining climate ambition within a regime structured by minimal consensus. Through the lens of participant observation, this report analyzes how the diversity of tactics employed by Latin American civil society constituted a strategic response to the ineffectiveness of the multilateral process. The document explores how the various actors in the ecosystem formed by civil society organizations deployed persuasion techniques to sustain climate ambition, facing structural inequalities and the limits of the negotiation process in a context of high geopolitical complexity, as well as its implications for the next negotiation instances.
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