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2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference
30th UN climate conference From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP30, is the upcoming 30th United Nations Climate Change conference, to be held in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025.[1]
The city's candidacy was announced by Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during his visit to the COP 27, held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt,[1] and made official in January 2023.[2][3]
The BBC reported that the summit has been used as a justification to build a new highway cutting through the rain forest.[4] The COP30's organizers and the state of Pará have denied any direct links.[5][6]
Meanwhile the United States under president Trump have closed their office of climate diplomacy.[7][8]
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A series of construction and revitalization works conducted by the local government took place aiming to improve the city's infrastructure with sustainable techniques. A new square was made surrounding one of the city's main avenues, as well as the sewage and the anti-flooding systems were stepped up.[9][10]
In January 2025, President Lula appointed Brazilian diplomat André Corrêa do Lago as the COP's president.[11] The decision was praised by Brazilian climate activists given Lago's history of leading climate justice discussions, among other things.[12] Lago is a veteran diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a longtime climate negotiator.[13]
Several attendees have publicly complained about extremely high accommodation pricing for COP30, with one listing on Airbnb priced at US$9,320 per day, up from its normal $11 rate, and a one-person flat on Booking.com going for $15,266 per night. In response, the Brazilian government has said that it plans to make 26,000 additional lodging beds available, including spaces on cruise ships, in schools, in new hotels, and in military facilities.[14]
In March 2025, a BBC article reported that the new four-lane highway (Avenida Liberdade), whose construction was approved in 2024 and is under way, is destined to ease the traffic in preparation for the COP30.[4] The project has drawn criticism from nearby residents and conservationists for its destruction of Amazon rainforest, and its consequences on climate, biodiversity and local communities.[15] The COP30's organizers have stated the BBC's headline is "misleading", as the project is neither under federal responsibility nor part of the official COP30 infrastructure projects.[5] Following the publication of the BBC report, the state of Pará has denied any links, underlining that the project was planned since at least 2020 (before the nomination of the COP30 host in 2023) and that it had not received any federal funds.[6] While the project has been discussed since 2012, some believe the COP provided the necessary justification to start the project.[6] The state of Pará had previously cited the COP as one of the interests served by the project.[16]
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NDCs
The updated Nationally Determined Contributions, as set out in the Paris Agreement, were to be published by every country by Feb 2025. As of April 2025, only 19 countries submitted theirs.[17]
Baku to Belém Roadmap to 1.3T
Parties at COP29 in Baku agreed for "all actors to work together to enable the scaling up of financing to developing country Parties for climate action from all public and private sources to at least USD 1.3 trillion per year by 2035”, as the “Baku to Belém Roadmap to 1.3T”.[18] Negotiations are expected on how international climate finance is to be scaled from the $300 billion agreed in Baku to the $1.3 trillion.[19]
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Brazil, the COP30 presidency, intends to launch the Tropical Forest Forever Facility as a signature achievement in Belem.[20] The $125 billion blended-finance investment fund aims to finalise investments from sovereign funders by COP30 to begin payouts to reward forest conservation in tropical countries in 2026.[21]
Further details are expected after the SB 62 conference in Bonn in June 2025.[22]
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