In a recent letter, President-designate of the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 30) André Aranha Corrêa do Lago invites countries and stakeholders to consider adaptation as the next step in human evolution. This is his eighth letter to the international community, in which he calls for enhanced international cooperation to implement the adaptation provisions of the climate regime “to become the best version of humanity – grounded in dignity, justice and solidarity.”

The President-designate highlights adaptation ambition and action as key to advancing Brazil’s three priorities for COP 30: strengthening multilateralism; connecting the climate regime to people’s daily lives; and accelerating climate implementation.

Emphasizing adaptation as essential to safeguarding economies and protecting lives, the letter calls for elevating adaptation at all levels through stronger international cooperation and “a strategic mix” of financial instruments like grants and concessional loans, ensuring they reach the most vulnerable without creating additional fiscal pressures. “Sovereign and subnational resilience bonds are channeling domestic savings to priorities; debt-for-resilience swaps and loss-and-damage insurance ease fiscal pressures and speed up recovery; results-based finance and revolving funds improve accountability and ensure sustained impact,” it underscores.

Calling for “a major inflection on adaptation” at COP 30, Corrêa do Lago highlights the following issues as central:

• Finalizing the assessment of National Adaptation Plan (NAP) progress, evaluating findings, and agreeing on follow-up steps;
• Advancing the Baku Adaptation Roadmap (BAR) to accelerate Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) delivery through concrete steps;
• Clarifying “how we will collectively close the adaptation-finance gap”; and
• Delivering on the GGA and its operationalization through the UAE-Belém Work Programme, with concrete, measurable indicators to track enhanced adaptive capacity, strengthened resilience, and reduced vulnerability.

Hoping COP 30 will be remembered as “the COP of Adaptation Implementation,” the President-designate invites “all initiatives to bring their best solutions and highest ambition to close gaps in policies and practice – for example, in health, food security, water management, adaptation finance, cities and regions, infrastructure, [and] small and micro business, among others.”

Dated 23 October, the letter comes two weeks before the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil, convening from 10-21 November. [Host Country Website] [SDG Knowledge Hub Story on President-designate’s Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Letters to International Community] [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]