COP30 unveils draft 'Belem Package' as climate talks enter final phase

The final phase of negotiations at the UN COP30 Climate Summit began on Tuesday with the release of the draft Belem Political Package, which is expected to guide the next steps in global climate action. COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago, in a letter to all countries, urged them to work “side by side, in task-force mode” to finalise the package swiftly, fairly and with care for all. The draft texts are expected to be adopted on Wednesday after deliberations.

Negotiators from more than 190 countries are attending the annual Conference of Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), being held in Belem, in Brazil’s Amazon region, from November 10 to 21. The COP30 Presidency has published 11 draft documents across issues, while six topics remain under negotiation.

Draft texts have been released on matters such as climate-related trade restrictions, the synthesis report on Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), the 1.5-degree Celsius ambition and implementation gap, Article 9.1 and Article 13 of the Paris Agreement, the Global Goal on Adaptation, the global stocktake, Standing Committee on Finance, Green Climate Fund and the Global Environment Facility among others.In the draft titled Global Mutirao: uniting humanity in a global mobilization against climate change, the Presidency proposed acknowledging climate change as a common concern of humankind and urged parties to uphold human rights obligations while taking climate action.