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Cop30 Approves Belém Package

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195 Parties approve the Belém Package, proving that multilateralism can accelerate climate action that benefits people One hundred and ninety-five Parties adopted the Belém Package this afternoon, demonstrating humanity’s resolve to turn urgency into unity, and unity into action in tackling climate change. The 29 decisions approved by consensus include agreements on topics such as just transition, adaptation finance, trade, gender, and technology, renewing the collective commitment to accelerated action, and a climate regime more connected to... “As we leave Belém, this moment must not be remembered as the end of a conference, but as the beginning of a decade of turning the game”, said COP30 President, André Corrêa do Lago. “The spirit we built here does not end with the gavel; it continues in every government meeting, every boardroom and trade union, every classroom, laboratory, forest community, large city, and coastal town.” The approved decisions in the Belém Package include a commitment to triple adaptation finance by 2035, emphasizing the need for developed countries to significantly boost climate finance for developing nations.

Parties concluded the Baku Adaptation Roadmap, which approves and establishes the work for 2026-2028, until the next Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement. The climate conference is also finalizing a comprehensive set of 59 voluntary, non-prescriptive indicators to track progress under the Global Goal on Adaptation.These indicators span all sectors, including water, food, health, ecosystems, infrastructure, and... The 30th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 30) brought the world to Belém, Brazil, for a negotiating round surrounded by rising climate impacts and growing expectations. After two weeks of talks, countries adopted a bundle of decisions now referred to as the Belém Political Package. Here are five key outcomes of COP 30: Adaptation finance is the funding that helps countries cope with climate impacts already unfolding, such as building flood-resilient roads, improving water storage during droughts or expanding early warning systems.

At COP 30, countries indicated that adaptation finance should increase threefold by 2035. While this is not yet a binding commitment, it is a major political signal. Current funding falls far short of what vulnerable countries need, and impacts are escalating quickly. A clear expectation to scale up resources over the next decade gives international institutions and national governments a direction of travel, even as the details on contributions still need to be negotiated. Countries’ Nationally Determined Commitments (NDCs) while providing progress if implemented are falling short to reach the mitigation necessary to avoid 1.5°C. In an effort to bridge the gap between current climate targets and the 1.5°C goal, the Baku-Belém Political Package establishes two initiatives designed to support nations in strengthening and achieving their commitments.

The "Belém Mission to 1.5" aims to encourage higher ambition in national climate plans (NDCs) by fostering dialogue on the necessary international cooperation and investment. This is complemented by the "Global Implementation Accelerator," a voluntary and cooperative platform intended to assist countries in moving from planning to action, facilitating the practical delivery of mitigation and adaptation measures needed to... One of the summit’s most consequential outcomes was the creation of a just transition mechanism. In line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), just transition refers to the idea that climate action should not leave anyone behind, particularly communities and workers whose livelihoods depend on fossil fuels or carbon-intensive... It also means giving developing countries the support they need to grow their economies in cleaner, more resilient ways. The new Belém Action Mechanism (BAM) will serve as a platform to coordinate assistance, share best practices, mobilize resources and track progress.

Its establishment means that fairness in the global shift toward sustainable economies is no longer only a political slogan but now has a formal home within the UN climate system. For years, Parties have been trying to define how to measure global progress on adaptation, which is a difficult task considering climate resilience looks different from place to place. COP 30 finally produced an agreed set of indicators for the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA). These will help evaluate improvements in areas such as water security, food systems, infrastructure resilience, the reach of early warning systems and access to adaptation finance. Negotiations were difficult, and many governments stressed that the indicators will need further refinement, leaving significant work for coming COPs. Still, having a first version in place gives countries a common framework to assess whether adaptation efforts are on track.

The 30th UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), held in Belém, Brazil, was widely framed as a summit of implementation, emphasizing turning climate commitments into tangible action. Unlike previous conferences, where headline pledges dominated discussions, COP30 focused on concrete mechanisms to deliver measurable results. The conference concluded with the adoption of the Belém Package, a set of 29 decisions covering adaptation, just transition, gender, trade, technology, and more. A key highlight was the commitment to triple adaptation finance by 2035, aimed at helping vulnerable countries build resilience against the growing impacts of climate change. To track progress, countries agreed on 59 voluntary indicators under the Global Goal on Adaptation, covering sectors including water, health, and ecosystems. This move reflects an increasing emphasis on accountability and measurable outcomes in international climate negotiations.

Two flagship mechanisms were launched to bridge the gap between pledges and implementation. The Global Implementation Accelerator aims to help countries scale up their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans, ensuring that climate strategies move from paper to action. Meanwhile, the Belém Mission to 1.5°C serves as a multiyear platform to maintain momentum toward the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 °C goal. These mechanisms signal a shift toward operationalizing climate commitments, providing countries with tools, guidance, and support to implement existing plans. Equity and inclusion were central themes at COP30. A Just Transition Mechanism was agreed upon to protect workers, Indigenous communities, and marginalized populations as economies shift away from fossil fuels.

A new Gender Action Plan was also adopted to promote gender-responsive climate policies and strengthen the participation of rural, and Indigenous women in climate action. By integrating social and economic considerations, COP30 emphasized that climate action must be both effective and equitable. Forest protection was another priority. The Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) was launched to provide financial incentives to countries that preserve standing tropical forests, signaling a recognition of the economic value of intact ecosystems. However, the summit stopped short of adopting a formal zero-deforestation roadmap in the official COP text, prompting some observers to call for stronger commitments to halt deforestation. A voluntary plan to curb fossil fuels, a goal to triple adaptation finance and new efforts to “strengthen” climate targets have been launched at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

After all-night negotiations in the Amazonian city of Belém, the Brazilian presidency released a final package termed the “global mutirão” – a name meaning “collective efforts”. It was an attempt to draw together controversial issues that had divided the fortnight of talks, including finance, trade policies and meeting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C temperature goal. A “mechanism” to help ensure a “just transition” globally and a set of measures to track climate-adaptation efforts were also among COP30’s notable outcomes. Scores of nations that had backed plans to “transition away” from fossil fuels and “reverse deforestation” instead accepted COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago’s compromise proposal of “roadmaps” outside the formal UN regime. Minister of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, Sônia Guajajara and Chief Raoni Metuktire (Raoni), Brazilian environmentalist, during the COP30. The 30th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 30) brought the world to Belém, Brazil, for a negotiating round surrounded by rising climate impacts and growing expectations.

After two weeks of talks, countries adopted a bundle of decisions now referred to as the Belém Political Package. Here are five key outcomes of COP 30: Adaptation finance is the funding that helps countries cope with climate impacts already unfolding, such as building flood-resilient roads, improving water storage during droughts or expanding early warning systems. At COP 30, countries indicated that adaptation finance should increase threefold by 2035. While this is not yet a binding commitment, it is a major political signal. Current funding falls far short of what vulnerable countries need, and impacts are escalating quickly.

A clear expectation to scale up resources over the next decade gives international institutions and national governments a direction of travel, even as the details on contributions still need to be negotiated. Countries’ Nationally Determined Commitments (NDCs) while providing progress if implemented are falling short to reach the mitigation necessary to avoid 1.5°C. In an effort to bridge the gap between current climate targets and the 1.5°C goal, the Baku-Belém Political Package establishes two initiatives designed to support nations in strengthening and achieving their commitments. The "Belém Mission to 1.5" aims to encourage higher ambition in national climate plans (NDCs) by fostering dialogue on the necessary international cooperation and investment. This is complemented by the "Global Implementation Accelerator," a voluntary and cooperative platform intended to assist countries in moving from planning to action, facilitating the practical delivery of mitigation and adaptation measures needed to... One of the summit’s most consequential outcomes was the creation of a just transition mechanism.

In line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), just transition refers to the idea that climate action should not leave anyone behind, particularly communities and workers whose livelihoods depend on fossil fuels or carbon-intensive... It also means giving developing countries the support they need to grow their economies in cleaner, more resilient ways. The new Belém Action Mechanism (BAM) will serve as a platform to coordinate assistance, share best practices, mobilize resources and track progress. Its establishment means that fairness in the global shift toward sustainable economies is no longer only a political slogan but now has a formal home within the UN climate system. Delegates at COP30 in Belém, Brazil approved the Belém Package, a suite of 29 decisions on adaptation, finance, technology transfer and just transition. The package was adopted by 195 parties after delays caused by disagreements over aspects of the text.

Despite nearly 80 developed and developing countries standing firm demanding an end to the use of planet-warming fossil fuels, there is no mention of fossil fuels in the final COP30 agreement, only an oblique... André Corrêa do Lago, COP30 President of Brazil, during a highly charged closing plenary. Credit: UN Climate Change/Kiara Worth BELÉM, Brazil, Nov 23 2025 (IPS) - Following tense, nightlong negotiations and bitter rows between more than 190 country delegations, a “politically charged Belém package” was finally forged at COP30—so named because of the... Belém was supposed to be ‘a how’ climate conference. Decisions made at the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change would shape how the Paris Agreement moves from word to action and to what extent global...

In this COP of “implementation and multilateralism in action,” politics carried the day in more ways than one. Observers, such as Wesley Githaiga from the Civil Society, told IPS that issues touching on trade, climate finance, and fossil fuels are politically charged because of competing and conflicting national interests. Gavel came out without a roadmap for ending fossil fuels. Credit: UN Climate Change/Kiara Worth

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