COP30 climate summit in Brazil: Joint efforts for our climate!

COP30 climate summit in Brazil: Joint efforts for our climate!

From November 10th to 21st, 2025, Belém in Brazil will be the venue for COP30, the 30th UN Climate Change Conference. This comes exactly a decade after the entry into force of the Paris Agreement. Under the motto “Mutirão”, a Brazilian concept for collective action, this conference aims to focus on important issues such as forest protection, biodiversity conservation and the role of indigenous communities. Belém, located near the Amazon, carries symbolic significance as this region is considered one of the most important CO2 sinks on our planet. Indigenous peoples living in the Amazon region are particularly badly affected by climate change, although they have only made a minimal contribution to the climate crisis, as umweltbundesamt.de reports.

COP30 will bring together representatives from governments, businesses and civil society to address the challenges of climate change. The focus is on meeting the 1.5 degree target while global temperatures are already reaching record highs and extreme weather events are increasing. One of the central tasks will be the presentation of new national climate protection plans (NDCs), which must be updated every five years. The next round of these contributions is now due, and by the end of September 2025 only 64 countries had submitted new NDCs, representing only 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate finance and ambitious goals

A crucial element of the CONFERENCE is climate finance: the financial commitments made during COP29 in Baku must be assessed and continued. One goal is to provide $300 billion annually to developing countries by 2035. An additional concept, the “Baku to Belèm Roadmap to 1.3 T”, even aims for a sum of 1.3 trillion US dollars per year. These far-reaching financial goals are intended to help advance climate adaptation, particularly in vulnerable regions such as the Amazon.

The NDCs submitted up to COP30 generally show higher ambition than previous submissions, but analysis reveals an existing gap to achieve the 1.5 degree target. According to the Emissions Gap Report 2025, without further action, the global average temperature is expected to rise by 2.3 to 2.5 °C and according to the UNEP report even by 2.8 °C by the end of the century.

A just transition to sustainability

An important part of the discussions will be the Just Transition Work Program (JTWP), which aims to promote a socially just approach to implementing climate action. A Gender Action Plan is also being announced to strengthen gender equality to ensure that no one is left behind. All of these measures are important not only locally but globally to drive the transformation of the energy sector and protect ecosystems. Because: Every tenth of a degree of warming that is avoided has an immense impact on future generations.

The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) will actively participate in the negotiations and organize various events for COP30. The aim is to define concrete implementation plans and verifiable mechanisms to advance global climate protection and to create awareness of the urgency of this global challenge. So stay tuned as there is a lot to discuss and achieve!