- The 30th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP30) will be held in Belém, Brazil, from November 10 to 21, 2025.
- The mid-year climate change conference (UNFCCC SB62) took place from June 16 to 26, 2025 in Bonn, Germany.
This year at UNFCCC COP30 in Belém, representatives from nearly 200 countries will seek to fulfill ambitious climate financing goals and accelerate national action on climate change to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Leading up to COP30, the mid-year climate conference (SB 62) in Bonn, Germany was an important opportunity to build momentum with international stakeholders and negotiators.
Conservation International’s policy recommendations for COP30 are available here in English, Portuguese, French and Spanish.
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Conservation International and Emergent will be co-hosting an Official Side Event at COP30 on Saturday, 15 November, from 11:30 to 13:00 in Side Event Room 1. For more information on Side Events, please see: SEORS | Side events list
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This event showcases jurisdictional REDD+ programs and stakeholders coming together to deliver positive impacts for people and forests at scale. Hear from: jurisdictional leaders and Indigenous Peoples on high-integrity outcomes; and donors and investors on paths to accelerate capital mobilization.
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U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change COP30 – Belém
The Conference of the Parties (COP) refers to the annual meeting of the 197 parties of the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
This year’s U.N. climate change conference in Belém, Brazil — at the heart of the Amazon — will be a pivotal moment for global climate action, marking the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement. COP30 will focus on raising ambition and accelerating the implementation of solutions to climate change.
Conservation International will engage with key decision-makers and global stakeholders to advance discussions and implement commitments made in previous climate conferences — and help set the groundwork to accelerate climate action by governments and the private sector.
Conservation International’s engagement focuses on elevating the role of nature-based solutions to climate change — such as protecting forests, mangroves and peatlands — to limit global warming and help communities adapt to climate change. During formal negotiations in Belém, Conservation International will advise countries on the need to accelerate support and incentives for nature-based solutions for climate action. The critical role of nature should be reflected in all topics under the Paris Agreement, especially on climate ambition through nationally determined contributions (NDCs), adaptation, and the mobilization of transformational finance. This includes international cooperation mechanisms such as Article 6, which outlines how countries can work together on the vital task of reducing carbon emissions.
Conservation International coordinates with partners representing diverse sectors to galvanize action on these issues — both in and outside of the negotiation rooms.
Natural climate solutions, which are essential to achieving the Paris Agreement’s goals, provide opportunities for countries to increase their climate ambition; they must be part of countries’ NDCs and complementary Paris Agreement mechanisms. Harnessing the full potential of nature to mitigate climate change — and help communities adapt to its impacts — is critical to the success of the Paris Agreement.
This year’s UN climate change conference will aim to galvanize the needed ambition, finance and leadership to address climate change in this critical decade. Discussions will focus on whether 2025 NDCs will collectively keep humanity on track to meet the Paris Agreement’s goals, as well as on the mobilization of climate finance through the Baku- Belém Roadmap to $1.3 Trillion. Parties will make important decisions to move the Global Goal on Adaptation from concept to action. This includes approving a new framework to guide how countries measure and strengthen resilience to climate impacts. They will also provide guidance to the ongoing work from the technical body which is developing standards for projects and programs to be eligible to the UN-centralized carbon crediting mechanism under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement.
Our approach
Conservation International helps countries achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement through conserving, restoring and sustainably managing nature by providing policy recommendations, scientific models, tools and funding platforms for implementing natural climate solutions at scale. We envision a world where nature’s contribution to addressing climate change is maximized — meaning natural climate solutions are implemented to their fullest potential for mitigating climate change — and are also fully deployed in places where ecosystems can help vulnerable populations adapt to the already-present and future effects of climate change.
We work alongside Indigenous Peoples and local communities to achieve the Paris Agreements’ goals, as they are the stewards of lands that contain almost a quarter of the world’s land-based carbon and are on the front lines of climate change. To recognize the importance of these stakeholders, our policy advocacy works to connect Indigenous Peoples and local communities to funding, training and technology and raise their voices under the ongoing negotiations.
Protecting, sustainably managing and restoring natural ecosystems such as forests and wetlands can provide at least 30 percent of the global action needed to limit average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). Yet nature conservation currently receives only 3 percent of global climate finance. The financing gap for climate mitigation needed in the agriculture, forestry and other land use sectors is larger than the financing gap to mitigate climate change in other sectors (energy, transport and industry) — and does not account for the billions of dollars that continue to flow into practices that destroy nature and drive greenhouse gas emissions. Estimates show nature-related climate action requires between about US$ 100-300 billion a year in funding — about 10 to 30 times what’s currently available — to meet the Paris Agreement’s targets. Through our policy advocacy and engagements with public and private sector we aim to narrow this gap to ensure nature’s potential is unleashed.
As we passed the 1.5 degree warming threshold for the first time in 2024, this is a critical time for countries to update and accelerate the implementation of their Nationally Determined Contributions — their targets for achieving the Paris Agreement — and for the international community to provide additional technical and financial support.
While some countries have taken steps toward increasing their ambition to address climate change, more ambition, action and finance are needed to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change and ensure that communities can adapt.
While progress has been made in enhancing climate ambitions and securing implementation support, stronger targets, more decisive actions and increased financial resources are still needed. These steps are vital to mitigating severe climate impacts and helping communities adapt effectively. The actions we take now will profoundly shape our climate future.
Our policy objectives for COP30
Conservation International works to equip decision makers with accessible, policy-relevant science to restore and protect critical ecosystems as part of global climate action.
At COP30, Conservation International will strive to advance the role of nature in implementing the Paris Agreement in several priority areas, including adaptation, market and non-market approaches, inclusive participation of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, the ocean-climate nexus, and climate-biodiversity synergies. Our COP30 recommendations build upon the outcomes from the mid-session conference in June (see our readout of the policy outcomes below).
At COP30 Conservation International recommends that countries:
Adopt the proposed indicators for the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience (FGCR) to highlight the cross-cutting role of ecosystems and traditional knowledge in adaptation.
- Adopt the proposed indicator list and select the options for measuring the provision of means of implementation so that the widest possible range of support is captured.
- Agree on next steps for technical work, resourcing, and capacity-building, and establish an iterative review process to support national integration of UAE FGCR indicators.
Ensure that high-integrity nature credits remain eligible under the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM) by providing guidance to Article 6.4 Supervisory Body to:
- Guarantee the PACM provides a level playing field for carbon credits from all sectors by revising the Standards for Setting the baseline in mechanism methodologies, Application of the requirements of Chapter V.B (Methodologies) and Addressing leakage in mechanism methodologies.
- Ensure that nature does not get implicitly excluded from the PACM in the risk assessment tool and concept note for remediation measures, nor in the review and assessment of methodologies submitted for approval under the mechanism.
- Improve stakeholder engagement processes to facilitate effective public consultation and transparent participation in all meetings.
Increase efficiency of delivering climate goals and finance through non-market approaches (NMAs) under Article 6.8
- NMAs should effectively incentivize countries to prioritize climate action through nature-based solutions, with particular emphasis on conservation and restoration of carbon-rich ecosystems.
- Allow single-Party registration of NMAs and ensure they follow a rights-based approach (land tenure, fair benefit-sharing, safeguards for Indigenous Peoples and local communities).
- Adopt a decision to increase collaboration across the Rio Conventions for synergetic action on nature
- ·Request the Secretariat to explore options to enhance cooperation, including by strengthening the mandate of the Joint Liaison Group (JLG) into a coordination body capable of developing and recommending guidance to support enhanced policy coherence across the Conventions, and by exploring a potential joint work programme of the Rio Conventions.
Strengthen the functions of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform to ensure inclusive and effective participation in climate policy processes and benefit-sharing
- Advance the LCIPP annual theme: “Ambitious and just climate action rooted in holistic stewardship” and deepen local community engagement through co-created pathways and dialogues.
- Implement the six collective approaches under the Baku Workplan, fully operationalize LCIPP functions, and ensure inclusive participation in key negotiation workstreams.
Ocean and Climate Change Nexus
- Nature-based climate finance must ‘go blue’ by scaling up and mobilizing finance for critically underfunded coastal blue carbon and marine habitats within UNFCCC processes.
- Raise ambition for coastal NbS across national climate planning, including advancing efforts to align climate, biodiversity, and ocean action.
Accelerate the equitable mobilization of $1.3T to close the significant nature-finance gap through operationalizing the Baku to Belem Roadmap to 1.3T
Ensure that finance for NbS to climate change is included under the 1.3T Roadmap’s mandate.
Advance relevant elements of the 1.3T Roadmap under relevant UNFCCC and Paris Agreement mechanisms, including consideration of new processes needed for its implementation.]