The Path To Cop30 World Resources Institute

The 30th annual UN climate summit (COP30) will take place Nov. 10-Nov. 21, 2025 in Belém, Brazil. It’s a major moment for the world’s leaders to demonstrate progress on past pledges and put forward new plans that benefit people, nature and the climate. As the world navigates the Path to COP30, WRI experts are closely tracking the issues at stake. Visit this resource hub regularly for the latest commentary, analysis, events and more.

Global Director for Strategic Communications Director of Communications & Media Strategy, Climate Program Next week's UN climate summit (COP30) needs to mark a turning point for climate action. Even as disasters like floods, fires and extreme heat escalate, some countries and companies are pulling back on climate policies and funding. Others are forging ahead and reaping the benefits — from cleaner air and better health to new jobs and stronger economies. What the world needs now is for all leaders to urgently act on climate, moving from targets and pledges to real change.

COP30 offers several major opportunities to do so. Our experts laid out what to look for at the summit. Read more. All countries are due to deliver new climate commitments (known as “nationally determined contributions”) this year. But those submitted so far fall well short of what’s needed to keep the world within critical warming thresholds. At COP30, countries must respond to this gap and deliver a concrete action plan to narrow it.

Read more. The Warrick Power Plant, a coal-powered generating station, operates April 8, 2025, in Newburgh, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File) Activists participate in a demonstration outside where negotiations are taking place at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov.

21, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel) Simon Stiell, United Nations climate chief, speaks during a news conference at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025, in Belem, Brazil.

(AP Photo/Andre Penner) Trees surround the area of a quilombola, an Afro-descendant community called Menino Jesus in Acara, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) André Corrêa do Lago, COP30 president, center, and Simon Stiell, United Nations climate chief, front left, speak with staff during a plenary session at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Nov.

22, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) COP 30’s agenda had placed a strong emphasis on countries’ implementation of their emissions reduction target and, for the first time, several workstreams included discussions on unilateral trade policies. Climate-linked flooding is becoming more severe, reshaping risks for UK cities, real estate, and local economies. Which areas face the greatest impact—and why? We modelled how advanced-economy leadership in innovation and finance could accelerate a global low-carbon transition.

To understand how the G20 countries are progressing in the energy transition, Oxford Economics PwC collaborated with PwC to create the Changing Energy Order Index. The index combines data from international economic organizations like the OECD and World Bank with with Oxford's own forecasts to evaluate each country's progress across five key pillars. The 2025 UN climate talks wrapped on Saturday, Nov. 22 after negotiations pushed into overtime. The resulting decision secured some important wins, both inside and outside the negotiations. But it omitted some of the big-ticket items many hoped to see.

With efforts to halt temperature rise severely off track and climate disasters becoming ever-more destructive, the summit (COP30) aimed to establish clear pathways to deliver past pledges and put the world on a safer... A key question was how countries would address lagging ambition in their new climate commitments (NDCs). Hopes that countries would commit to roadmaps to end fossil fuel use and halt deforestation were ultimately dashed after opposition from petrostates. The final decision only included new voluntary initiatives to accelerate national climate action, though the Brazilian Presidency intends to move forward with fossil fuel and deforestation roadmaps outside of the formal COP talks. Building resilience to climate impacts took center stage, with COP30 securing a new target to triple finance for climate adaptation. The COP also laid out practical solutions to increase finance for the low-carbon transition.

In an era of trade wars and tariffs, negotiators also agreed for the first time to hold discussions on how trade policies can help — or hinder — climate action. Against the backdrop of the Amazon, nature also saw advances, including a new fund for tropical forest conservation. Indigenous Peoples and other local communities were recognized like never before. And outside the formal negotiations, the summit saw a raft of new pledges and action plans from cities, states, countries and the private sector. It is clear that we are moving from negotiations to implementation, and from wrangling over what to do to how to do it. These victories matter.

It shows that international cooperation can still deliver, despite deepening divides on climate action and a difficult geopolitical context.

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