• The opening plenary picked back up to allow negotiating groups to make opening statements; meanwhile, more than 30 negotiating sessions took place across the venue. (Negotiations)
• California Governor Gavin Newsom arrived in Belém today to attempt to fill the void left by the federal government. (U.S. Updates)
• The COP30 Presidency and the UN Environment Programme launched the Beat the Heat Implementation Drive, a global initiative to turn Global Cooling Pledge promises into city-level action. (Around the World)

• Negotiating Group Priorities: The opening plenary picked back up today to allow negotiating groups to make opening statements. Here are some takeaways (in speaker order):
  • G77 and China: Their core focus is scaling up climate finance for developing countries. The representative also called for a successful outcome on the Global Goal on Adaptation and the just transition work programme, as well as an outcome on loss and damage that would lead to better coordination between the Warsaw Mechanism, the Santiago Network, and the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (the three major loss and damage entities under the UNFCCC).
  • EU: The EU emphasized the importance of science, the need for major economies to show leadership, and the urgency of the Action Agenda. They noted that the EU, along with EU development banks, are the largest providers of public climate finance globally. They also called out the importance of the gender action plan talks at this COP.
  • Environmental Integrity Group (Mexico, Liechtenstein, Monaco, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, and Georgia): Represented by Switzerland, the group underscored their commitment to climate science, stating that “the next global stocktake has to be anchored in evidence, even if the evidence is uncomfortable.” They also discussed the imperative to protect natural ecosystems, and are looking for coherence on loss and damage, in agreement with the G77 and China.
  • Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America: This group of Latin American and Caribbean countries emphasized that all actions at COP30 need to allow for “people’s right to development.” They also called out what they see as a lack of political will in developed countries to adequately address climate change and distribute climate finance.
  • Like-Minded Developing Countries and BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India, China): India spoke on behalf of both of these groups, which account for more than half the world’s population. They reaffirmed their commitments to multilateralism and international cooperation on climate change. They also called back to a core tenet of the UNFCCC, common but differentiated responsibility, which puts the onus on countries with high historic greenhouse gas emissions to take the greatest share of responsibility for reducing emissions. They called for this to be the “COP of adaptation,” and said that commitments on adaptation, like the doubling of adaptation finance by 2025, should be met.
  • Africa Group: The Africa Group emphasized the intersection of the climate challenge and sustainable development, and pointed to Mission 300 as an example of action on the ground. They also spotlighted the climate finance gap, and highlighted the latest work of the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage. Like almost all other groups, they mentioned the just transition work programme and the Global Goal on Adaptation. They said that adaptation indicators should include means of implementation—that is, technical, financial, and capacity-building support for developing countries.
  • Least Developed Countries Group (LDCs): LDC Chair Evans Njewa of Malawi called this the COP for justice and action. He outlined the stark challenges people face—from crop loss to homes destroyed by floods—and emphasized that people “deserve to live and thrive.” The LDCs stated that trust in the process needs to be restored, and called for countries to meet the adaptation finance goal due at the end of this year.
  • Arab Group: The group called on countries “to focus on emissions, not their sources,” and suggested that countries promote technologies like carbon capture. The statement also underscored that commitments to action are, and must remain, nationally determined.

• Technical Negotiations Begin: Today’s schedule included more than 30 negotiating sessions on different agenda items, covering almost all the topics countries highlighted in their opening remarks detailed above. For additional updates on the negotiations, see the Earth Negotiations Bulletin’s comprehensive daily reports and quick highlights posted every day.
  • EESI Briefing: What’s on the Table for the Negotiations

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Staff contributors: Daniel Bresette, Alison Davis, Laura Gries, Amaury Laporte,
Anna McGinn, Nicole Pouy, and Hannah Wilson-Black