https://climateandhealthalliance.org/cop29-un-climate-change-conference/

This conference was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November of 2024, four years after this novel was published.

https://unfccc.int/topics/global-stocktake

Robinson's take is different than the impression you get when you look at the website and read the actual report.

https://www.lewik.org/term/11984/the-conference-of-the-parties-article-14-paris-agreement-climatic-change/

Throughout the novel, Robinson is reflecting on current climate and environmental policy, which shows the depth of his knowledge as well as his awareness of current policy shortcomings.

Chapter 3 of The Ministry for the Future is a shorter chapter written in a third-person report-like style. It documents the attempt to account for national CO2 emissions and how frustrating they are, which leads to the creation of "a new Subsidiary Body for Implementation of the Agreement," which the press dubs The Ministry for the Future. This chapter is a bit jarring given that the previous two chapters, one about "big heat wave" in India written in first-person from the perspective of Frank May, and one written in a poetic, riddle-like style in the voice of the sun.