As preparations build toward COP30, attention is turning not only to environmental policy but also to the ethical foundations of our shared global response. The Global Ethical Stocktake (GES) — an initiative jointly launched by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and UN Secretary-General António Guterres, and supported by the COP30 Presidency, Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — calls the world to a profound moral reflection: If we already know what…