COP30 Announcement Tracker: Key Announcements from the 2025 UN Climate Summit

By Laura Gries and Hannah Wilson-Black and Nicole Pouy and Anna McGinn and Daniel Bresette and Amaury Laporte and Alison Davis

November 6, 2025

Throughout the UN climate summit (COP30)—which officially runs from November 10 to November 21, 2025—a number of agreements, declarations, and collaborations will be announced on a range of climate, environmental, and energy topics. EESI is tracking the happenings of COP30 through our daily newsletter, COP30 Dispatch: What Congress Needs to Know from Brazil. This article provides a compilation of the announcements included in COP30 Dispatch.

Announcements made by world leaders related to nationally determined contributions (NDCs)—the commitments nations make under the Paris Agreement to cut their greenhouse gas emissions—are not included in this tracker. This information can be found on the Climate Action Tracker, through ClimateWatch, or in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change official registry.

These announcements are organized by key themes. For more on U.S. federal and elected officials who attended the UN climate summit, COP30, in Brazil, see our U.S. leaders tracker.

 

Adaptation and resilience 

  • Beating the Heat: At a high-level session, UNEP and the COP30 Presidency launched the Beat the Heat Implementation Drive, a joint global initiative to turn Global Cooling Pledge promises into action. Specifically, Beat the Heat member cities will work to assess their heat risk, identify and support cooling projects, develop and advance heat plans, implement nature-based and passive cooling projects and policies, and adopt and integrate energy-efficient and low global warming potential technologies in city buildings. Nearly 200 cities have joined the effort, with more cities expected to commit over the course of COP30.
  • Healthy Planet, Healthy People: A health and climate ministerial meeting served as the official launch of the Belém Health Action Plan for the Adaptation of the Health Sector to Climate Change, which was designed collaboratively with civil society, international organizations, academia, and countries. As climate impacts increase in severity, health systems must be able to adapt to address the health risks that grow in parallel. The health action plan—the Brazil Presidency’s effort to connect the Global Goal on Adaptation to the resilient health systems objective of the COP30 Action Agenda—outlines 27 targets and 33 concrete actions for authorities and health services across all levels of government to adopt over the next decade. The recommendations, ranging from early warning systems to strategic medicine stockpiles, are underpinned by principles of health equity and the inclusion of civil society in governance. Brazil Health Minister Alexandre Padilha also foreshadowed the launch of two special reports on health and climate change at COP30.
  • Resilience Stats: Race to Resilience, an initiative of the High-Level Climate Champions, released its 2025 progress report. During his opening remarks, Chile’s COP25 High-Level Champion Gonzalo Muñoz highlighted the initiative’s accomplishments: 437 million people have been touched by resilience work, 18.4 million hectares of ecosystems in 78 countries have been conserved, and $4.2 billion in adaptation finance has been deployed. Muñoz underscored that the insurance sector has immense ability to continue to accelerate progress: “Insurance companies know that they need to provide new conditions for business to thrive and for governments to be more stable … Race to Resilience can provide the link of the insurance sector to all of the other sectors of the economy to generate the conditions that we require for being resilient.”
  • Landmark Launch for Landscapes: The Scaling-Up Resilience in Africa’s Great Green Wall (SURAGGWA) program was officially launched. The Green Climate Fund approved funding for the SURAGGWA program in July 2025, with an investment of $222 million to restore degraded landscapes and build climate resilience across eight Sahel countries within the Great Green Wall region: Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal. The program will contribute to the broader initiative to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land, sequester 250 million tons of carbon, and create 10 million green jobs by 2030. Senegal’s Minister of Environment and Ecological Transition underlined the importance of fighting against poverty while ensuring sustainable development. He expressed hopes that the SURAGGWA program will foster collaboration across participating countries and stakeholders. Green Climate Fund Regional Director of Africa Catherine Koffman added that partnerships across all levels of governance will be especially critical due to the complex operating environment in a region marred by conflict.

Agriculture

  • Declaration on Hunger: A total of 44 countries signed the Belém Declaration on Hunger, Poverty, and People-Centered Climate Action at last week’s World Leaders Summit. The document stresses that climate change and environmental degradation, and the resulting biodiversity loss, are accelerating and exacerbating food insecurity, diminishing access to water, and worsening public health around the world. Through eight specific, quantifiable recommendations, signatories urged other countries to ramp up climate adaptation efforts, particularly by supporting community-level resilience, and called for dedicated climate finance for projects that reinvigorate small-scale farmers and “traditional communities” that live off of the land.
  • AI as a Climate Tool: At the Agricultural Innovation Showcase, the Gates Foundation, along with Brazil and UAE, launched the first open-source AI agriculture model. Plus, the new AI Climate Institute was launched by global volunteers from industry and academia with institutional support from COP30. The project aims to teach leaders and decision-makers in developing countries how to wield AI as a climate solution, via a wealth of workshops, labs, hands-on experience, and replicable case studies. The German government has even produced an AI tool specific to COP30 negotiations to allow users to summarize positions from statements and compare texts. 
  • Eating the Cost: On Friday, the True Animal Protein Price (TAPP) Coalition discussed the Belém declaration on agri-food greenhouse gas pricing. According to TAPP, the meat and dairy industry is responsible for 60% of food-based greenhouse gas emissions. This declaration, signed by 28 African nations and small Pacific islands, asks 30 OECD countries and China to reduce animal agriculture emissions through “harmonized” greenhouse gas pricing, which could involve taxes on meat or dairy, tariffs on imports, or cap-and-trade emission schemes. The declaration also urges countries to channel 20% to 50% of revenues from animal agriculture-based greenhouse gas pricing into the UNFCCC fund for responding to loss and damage and requests a new framework to continue negotiations on agriculture at future COPs.
  • RAIZ Up for Farmlands: Brazil, joined by Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Saudi Arabia, and the UK, is backing the new Resilient Agriculture Investment for net-Zero land degradation (RAIZ) accelerator with the goal of restoring degraded soil on farmland worldwide. Brazil based the idea of RAIZ on two domestic programs, Green Way and EcoInvest, which have supported the restoration of 7.41 million acres with $6 billion. RAIZ focuses on de-risking investments in soil restoration to attract private finance, which could provide as much as $90 billion in an optimal investment environment. 

Clean energy

  • Belém 4X: At the World Leaders Summit on November 7, Brazil, India, Italy, and Japan endorsed their commitments to a new biofuels agreement, the Belém 4X Pledge on Sustainable Fuels, which they first announced in October. The commitment to quadruple sustainable biofuel use globally by 2035 compared to 2024 levels is based on the findings of an International Energy Agency report. At a CAN-I press conference on the first day of COP30, however, panelists criticized the move as a “false solution” that creates new land use problems and “distracts us from phasing [out] fossil fuels.” 
  • In the Business of Energy Efficiency: The Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) teamed up with Mission Efficiency for a press conference. Steven Kukoda of the International Copper Association announced the launch of Mission Efficiency’s global action plan to double energy efficiency by 2030, noting that energy efficiency encompasses the greatest share of action in the Paris Agreement. The plan, which already has buy-in from over 30 global partners, supports a letter to the COP30 Presidency, co-led by BCSE and the Alliance to Save Energy, affirming the commitment of the U.S. private sector to partner with international governments on the 2030 energy efficiency target.

Climate finance

  • Putting the “Eco” in “Economy”: NatureFinance and the Legal Amazon Consortium announced the official launch of the Full Protection Environmental Assets in the Brazilian Amazon Project. This initiative establishes economic mechanisms to value ecosystem services in the Full Protection Conservation Units, which are legally-protected areas in Brazil. “Forests, rivers, and soils are economic infrastructure as essential as roads or energy,” said NatureFinance Global Brazil Lead Luana Maia. “When these assets degrade, everyone pays the price. This project redefines how we finance the future—recognizing nature as a strategic asset and creating recurring revenue for those who protect ecosystems.”
  • Financing Resilience: At a high-level event, Ilan Goldfajn, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, shared that multilateral development banks are joining forces to improve their work at the intersection of climate and health, with a specific focus on adaptation. He said that the collaboration has four goals: to increase financing for resilience, make financing transparent to encourage private sector engagement, support countries in integrating resilience into their budgets, and innovate with financing tools like debt-for-nature swaps and resilience bonds.
  • Bridging Solutions for Latin American and Caribbean Cities: ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability and KfW, the German development bank, launched ProUrbano at the COP30 Cities & Regions Hub on November 12 to expand on their collaborative urban resilience finance program in Latin America and the Caribbean. ProUrbano will establish a link between two existing instruments, the Urban Infrastructure Insurance Facility and the Urban Adaptation Financing Facility. By connecting disaster risk insurance with adaptation finance, this new program will streamline climate resilience for cities across the region with a budget of about $68 million through 2030. 
  • Fiji’s Finance Roadmap: Fiji launched its Sustainable Finance Roadmap, which is designed to align the country’s financial sector with national climate policies. The country faces significant financial risks from climate change, including losses from decreased tourism and whole-of-economy impacts from extreme weather events. The plan outlines actions like improving risk disclosure, expanding access to financial services for small businesses, understanding operational impacts on the Reserve Bank of Fiji, and engaging in international carbon markets.
  • Matchmaking for Climate Investment: Luxembourg has committed about $369 million over five years to the Rio Changemakers initiative, which will connect investors with nature-based projects in developing countries by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to matchmake, stack different sources of funding, and harness data. Government representatives from 11 countries joined the launch and are planning to engage with the initiative. Tunisia Minister of the Environment Habib Abid said, "A global marketplace based on AI can broaden access to capital, improve project visibility, reduce transaction costs, and strengthen trust with investors."

Climate science

  • Information Integrity Declaration: The Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change announced the Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change signed by Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Uruguay. At the event on November 12, speakers emphasized that this effort will look to increase funding for research and investigative journalism into disinformation in order to strengthen the information ecosystem. Charlotte Scaddan, senior adviser on information integrity for UN Global Communications, explained that timing on this work is critical, with a particular need to be tackling this challenge during “vulnerability windows” like elections, COPs, and extreme weather events.

Emission reductions

  • We Are the (Climate) Champions: The High-Level Climate Champions, who are appointed by each COP Presidency and work to connect UNFCCC activities with actions on the ground, announced a 2026-2030 Action Agenda. The agenda is structured around six themes: decarbonization, nature, agriculture, cities, human and social development, and enabling factors like finance and technology. The work under this new plan kicks off at COP30, and progress on each theme will be measured annually.
  • Drive to Zero: Brazil and Mexico announced that they joined the Drive to Zero: Global Memorandum of Understanding on Zero-Emissions Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles. The memorandum identifies an initial goal of having 30% of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles sales be zero-emission vehicles by 2030. Countries also agreed to meet annually to assess progress.
  • Methane Status Update: The UN Environment Programme launched its first review of accomplishments under the Global Methane Pledge and next steps. The report, authored by over 90 experts from around the world, finds that the pledge’s goal—a 30% reduction in global methane emissions by 2030 compared to 2020 levels—is still attainable. One panelist at the launch highlighted that about 72% of methane mitigation potential is in the oil and gas sector, and the vast majority of the steps that companies and countries can take are low cost. However, the report finds that action needs to be taken on the information being collected. Right now, about 90% of methane leaks detected by satellites are not being addressed.

Forests

  • New Forest Fund: On the first day of the World Leaders Climate Action Summit, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF). The multilateral fund will pay heavily forested developing countries to leave these ecosystems intact, with 20% of these payments going to Indigenous and local communities. Upon its launch, the TFFF collected endorsements from 53 countries and more than $5.5 billion in pledges, with $3 billion from Norway, $1 billion each from Brazil and Indonesia, $500 million from France, $250 million from Colombia, $5 million from the Netherlands, and $1 million from Portugal, with more pledges expected over the course of COP30.
  • Money for Mangroves: The Global Mangrove Finance Facility was launched with the support of 44 governments—representing about 40% of global mangrove coverage—that have endorsed the Mangrove Breakthrough to unlock investment in mangrove ecosystems. In addition to their importance for biodiversity and coastal resilience, mangroves store the equivalent of over 22 gigatons of carbon dioxide, which is more than the annual emissions of five billion cars. High-level speakers at this event  included the UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment Dr. Amna bint Abdullah Al Dahak and Papua New Guinean Acting Managing Director of the Climate Change and Development Authority Debra Sungi.

Just transition

  • Analysis of Gender in NDCs: A press conference hosted by UN Women marked the launch of the Gender Equality and Climate Policy Scorecard, which measures how effectively countries integrate gender into their NDCs. It is composed of 50 indicators across six dimensions: economic security, unpaid care work, gender-based violence, health, participation and leadership, and gender mainstreaming. Sarah Hendriks at UN Women described it as the most globally comprehensive database on gender-responsive climate action, and noted that it will continue to grow as more NDCs are submitted. Hendriks and her fellow panelists voiced support for the adoption of a bold new Gender Action Plan that accounts for the intersectionality of different identities and lived experiences, such as gender identity, sexual orientation, education, and Indigeneity.

Oceans

  • Diving into Ocean Action: Back in June, Brazil and France announced the Blue NDC Challenge, a global call for countries to incorporate ocean-oriented mitigation and resilience actions into their NDCs or NDC implementation plans. Actions can range from coastal restoration and marine conservation to shipping decarbonization and fishery resilience. So far, Brazil and France have been joined by Australia, Fiji, Kenya, Mexico, Palau, and Seychelles.
  • Into the Blue: A COP30 Presidency press conference highlighted the new “blue package” of implementation-ready plans to accelerate ocean-based solutions. The plan includes about 70 solutions for ocean energy, shipping, fishing, marine conservation, and coastal tourism, with 27 overarching outputs to support mitigation, adaptation, coastal resilience, and food security. The plan calls for up to $170 billion by 2030 to implement these goals, and outlines ways to unlock public and private investment. The package also includes the new Ocean Breakthrough Dashboard, which went live yesterday. The dashboard provides sector-by-sector information on individual countries’ progress towards each ocean outcome and highlights gaps in data and action.

Transportation

  • Drivers of Change: A new declaration on transportation decarbonization and resilience responds to a lack of specific global action on transportation emissions and calls for a shared framework with measurable goals and indicators to monitor progress. It also calls for a “just, inclusive, and tailored” transition; accordingly, the contributions of each participating country will be commensurate with the “differing capacities and realities” of developing countries. The declaration, co-led by Chile and Brazil, has so far been signed by Austria, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain. At a press event for the declaration, one Chilean transportation minister touted an 8.5% improvement in efficiency standards for light-duty vehicles, and success in deploying 4,400 electric buses in Santiago. Meanwhile, a representative from the Dominican Republic reported success in meeting the country’s 2020 NDC to build out its capital’s metro system.