2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 30)

The 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 30) will convene in November 2025 in Belém, Brazil. It will include the 30th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 30), the 20th meeting of the COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 20), and the seventh meeting of the COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 7), as well as the 63rd sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 63) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 63) will also meet.

In an informal briefing on 5 March 2025, COP 30 President-designate André Aranha Corrêa do Lago shared updates on Brazil’s preparations and priorities for the Conference. He highlighted the defense of multilateralism and respect for science among the COP 30 Presidency’s key priorities.

Corrêa do Lago called for: refocusing efforts on action and implementation by translating words into transformative actions on the ground; and aligning efforts within and outside the UNFCCC with the Paris Agreement’s long-term goals on temperature, resilience and financial floors. This, he said, includes the delivery of ambitious nationally determined contributions (NDCs) aligned with 1.5°C, which COP 30 is expected to take stock of to stimulate reflection on bottlenecks hampering implementation.

In a letter to parties dated 10 March 2025, the President-designate further detailed Brazil’s vision for the COP. He emphasized it is “urgent we address, in a comprehensive and synergetic manner, the interlinked global crises of climate change and biodiversity loss in the broader context of achieving the SDGs.”

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