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The COP 30 agreement also took important steps forward on building carbon markets, the just transition, technology transfer, and transparency on implementing commitments so that countries are properly held to account. Taken together, this package represents incremental but important progress and extends the arc of the progress we have seen over 30 years of COPs. That was particularly important this year, because the summit was a test of whether countries would continue to work together on the collective threat we face or whether, with the US stepping out of the Paris Agreement, there would be a domino effect of others departing. That has not happened. At COP 30, more than 190 countries reaffirmed their faith in the Paris Agreement, their faith in working together to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees, and their faith in multilateralism.