President-designate of the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 30) André Aranha Corrêa do Lago issued his sixth letter to the international community, calling for unity to “unleash the next wave of ambitious climate action,” informed by equity and the best available science. Launching immediately, COP 30 Presidency consultations will provide a space for parties to “channel priorities that are not currently covered under formal agenda items.”
Dated 19 August 2025, the letter details what the incoming Presidency heard from parties during the June climate meetings, including that COP 30 must respond to how nationally determined contributions (NDCs) “in aggregate effectively promise humanity a safe, prosperous, and sustainable future.” The letter flags the Presidency’s determination “to provide all conditions for frank, open, and creative dialogue towards” bridging divergences on the form and scope of response to the NDCs and the synthesis report the UNFCCC Secretariat will publish in October.
Referencing the COP 30 and COP 29 Presidencies’ consultations on the ‘Baku to Belém Roadmap to 1.3T,’ the letter notes parties’ “concerns about their ability to engage in ambitious climate actions when there are frustrations related to climate finance and to measures that impact international trade.”
The letter also acknowledges expectations from some parties regarding:
- Synergies among climate, biodiversity, desertification, and sustainable development;
- Implementation of global calls for efforts towards halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation by 2030 and for accelerating the global energy transition; and
- COP 30 reflecting on the first cycle of Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and loss and damage, noting that like NDCs, these issues are relevant but “do not all appear as individual agenda items for discussion in Belém.”
The incoming Presidency will undertake consultations during the intersessional period in coordination with the COP 29 Presidency and the Chairs of the Subsidiary Bodies. The letter informs parties they can raise matters that are not covered by the provisional agendas as well as address “proposed items already added to agendas for which consensus is anticipated to be challenging.”
The first consultation will take place on 25 September 2025, in New York, US, in the margins of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA). The second consultation will be held on 15 October in Brasília, Brazil, following the Pre-COP High-level Ministerial Meeting.
In his seventh letter of 29 August, directed to business and the wider private sector, the President-designate outlines the private sector’s role in shaping a new climate economy and calls for private sector leadership, underscoring climate action as “the defining business opportunity of our time.”
The President-designate’s fifth letter from 12 August lays out the incoming Presidency’s plans to connect the climate regime to people’s real lives – one of its stated three priorities, along with reinforcing multilateralism and accelerating Paris Agreement implementation. [Host Country Website] [SDG Knowledge Hub Story on President-designate’s Fourth Letter to International Community] [SDG Knowledge Hub Story on President-designate’s Third Letter to International Community] [SDG Knowledge Hub Story on President-designate’s Second Letter to International Community] [SDG Knowledge Hub Story on President-designate’s First Letter to International Community]