During the June meetings of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies (SBs), the President-designate of the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 30), taking place in November, released his fourth letter to the international community. The letter outlines the incoming Presidency’s goal of aligning the efforts by businesses, civil society, and all levels of government in a global mutirão (coordinated action) around the achievement of the global stocktake (GST) as a “global NDC.”

Dated 20 June 2025, the letter puts forward a solutions-based COP 30 Action Agenda, organized around six axes, and formulates key objectives to be achieved under each.

COP 30 President-designate André Aranha Corrêa do Lago underscores that, guided by the “ethical and scientific imperatives of just transition and equity,” the COP 30 Action Agenda will seek to: align the Action Agenda with what has already been collectively agreed under successive UNFCCC COPs and the Paris Agreement on climate change; leverage existing initiatives to accelerate and scale climate implementation; and drive transparency, monitoring, and accountability of existing and new pledges and initiatives.

The incoming Presidency sees the GST as allowing for “global alignment in climate action and ambition, while helping enhance transparency and accountability of climate-related initiatives worldwide.” The Presidency intends to rely on the GST “to transform climate action from cacophony into an orchestrated symphony,” with negotiations “setting the score,” and nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and the Action Agenda “providing the instruments.”

Guided by GST findings, the incoming Presidency envisions the Action Agenda to be organized into six thematic axes with 30 key objectives – together covering mitigation, adaptation, and means of implementation:

• Transitioning energy, industry, and transport, by: (1) tripling renewables and doubling energy efficiency; (2) accelerating zero- and low-emission technologies in hard-to-abate sectors; (3) ensuring universal access to energy; and (4) transitioning away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly, and equitable manner;
• Stewarding forests, oceans, and biodiversity, through: (5) investments to halt and reverse deforestation and forest degradation; (6) efforts to conserve, protect, and restore nature and ecosystems with solutions for climate, biodiversity, and desertification; and (7) efforts to preserve and restore oceans and coastal ecosystems;
• Transforming agriculture and food systems, through: (8) land restoration and sustainable agriculture; (9) more resilient, adaptive, and sustainable food systems; and (10) equitable access to adequate food and nutrition for all;
• Building resilience for cities, infrastructure, and water, through: (11) multilevel governance; (12) sustainable and resilient constructions and buildings; (13) resilient urban development, mobility, and infrastructure; (14) water management; and (15) solid waste management;
• Fostering human and social development, by (16) promoting resilient health systems and (17) reducing the effects of climate change on eradicating hunger and poverty and through (18) education, capacity building, and job creation to address climate change; and (19) culture, cultural heritage, and climate action; and
• Unleashing enablers and accelerators, including on finance, technology, and capacity building, through: (20) climate and sustainable finance, mainstreaming climate in investments, and insurance; (21) climate-integrated public procurement; (22) harmonization of carbon markets and carbon accounting standards; (23) climate and trade; (24) reduction of non-carbon dioxide (CO2) gases; (25) development and access to climate technologies; (26) governance, state capacities, and institutional strengthening for climate action, planning, and preparedness; (27) artificial intelligence (AI), digital public infrastructure, and digital technologies; (28) innovation, climate entrepreneurship, and small and micro-businesses; (29) bioeconomy and biotechnology; and (30) information integrity in climate change matters.

The incoming Presidency invites all existing initiatives and coalitions formed in previous COPs, which bring together subnational governments, businesses, investors, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and communities, to accelerate implementation in these areas and bring forward solutions. The Presidency intends to invite all stakeholders to join ‘Activation Groups’ under each key objective. [Host Country Website] [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]