During the Bonn mid-term negotiations, the COP30 Presidency, which will be held in Belém, presented its vision for the Global Climate Action Agenda, reiterating its commitment to implementing the results of the Paris Agreement’s Global Stocktake (GST), agreed in 2023 at COP28. Previewed in the fourth letter from the designated... Read More

‘It is a dangerous illusion to believe that we can solve the climate emergency here in Bonn, locked away in isolation: while negotiators focus on technical details, the world outside is burning.’ From Bonn, on the first day of the second week of meetings, Climate Action Network (CAN) International launched... Read More

The just transition is one of the main topics of discussion at the interim negotiations in Bonn ahead of COP30. But where does it come from? And where are we now? The concept of just transition originated in 1980 from the struggle of the US trade union movement to protect... Read More

While the UNFCCC interim climate negotiations are underway in Bonn, the first reports on the new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), also known as NDC 3.0, have been released. These are to be submitted by 2025 with plans for 2035.So far, only 23 out of 196 countries (11.73%) have submitted new... Read More

The Brazilian Presidency of COP30 is approaching its role with great ambition, and in recent months has already highlighted the key points it intends to focus on next November in Belém. Another element on which it is placing great emphasis is the concept of “mutirão”, typical of Brazilian culture and... Read More

Among the main areas of negotiation being worked on in Bonn are the talks on the Global Stocktake, the five-year inventory of national climate commitments. At the end of the first week, the delegations had met only four times for informal consultations, and progress had been very limited. However, it... Read More