Belém Health Action Plan Anchors COP30 Day 4 Focus on People and Justice
Belém — 14 November 2025, On COP30 Day 4, the center of gravity shifted from negotiating rooms to people’s lives. Ministers of health, education and justice, youth leaders, judges, funders and standard-setters converged in Belém around a simple proposition: adaptation begins with protecting health, expanding knowledge and defending rights in a warming world. The day […]
COP30 Day 3 Puts People, Skills and Culture at the Center of Climate Action
COP30 Day 3 underscored a clear message: the climate transition will rise or fall on society’s ability to build skills, protect cultural heritage, and strengthen trust in public information. With governments, multilateral institutions and civil society announcing new initiatives across jobs, education, Indigenous leadership and information integrity, the day marked a shift toward equipping people […]
Exclusive to Insiders: How the Baku to Belém Roadmap Could Rewire Global Climate Finance
In the crowded corridors outside the COP30 negotiation rooms, the most consequential document on climate finance is not a treaty text but a roadmap. Drafted jointly by the Azerbaijani COP29 presidency and the Brazilian COP30 presidency, the Baku to Belém roadmap attempts to answer the question left hanging in Baku: how to move from a […]
Exclusive to Insider: Day 1 at COP30 – From Promises to Implementation on Finance, Technology, and Resilience
Belém – Under humid skies at the mouth of the Amazon, COP30 opened with an unusual asset for a UN climate summit: a negotiated agenda agreed on time. After a long night of talks, countries signed off on the programme for the next two weeks, elected Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago as COP30 President and […]
SDG News Spotlight: André Corrêa do Lago and the Architecture of Implementation at COP30
Behind the opening plenary of COP30 in Belém stood one of the most practiced hands in global climate diplomacy: Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago. Appointed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in January 2025 to steer the Amazon-hosted summit, Corrêa do Lago is tasked with transforming a decade of climate commitments into a functioning […]
Global Report Finds Climate Change Now Central to Institutional Investment Strategies
A new global analysis of more than 220 institutional investors reveals that climate change has become a defining factor in how the world’s largest asset owners and managers assess risk, allocate capital, and engage with policymakers. Released ahead of COP30 in Belém, the Global State of Investor Climate Action report finds that while investors increasingly […]
IDB Issues First Social Amazonia Bond Under New Sustainable Debt Framework
In New York’s capital markets, where mandates are increasingly judged as much by impact as by yield, the Inter-American Development Bank has taken a deliberate step. Under its new Sustainable Debt Framework, the IDB has issued a 100 million dollar Social Amazonia Bond, designed to channel funding into social priorities across Latin America and the […]
How the Baku to Belém Roadmap Could Rewire Global Climate Finance
In the crowded corridors outside the COP30 negotiation rooms, the most consequential document on climate finance is not a treaty text but a roadmap. Drafted jointly by the Azerbaijani COP29 presidency and the Brazilian COP30 presidency, the Baku to Belém roadmap attempts to answer the question left hanging in Baku: how to move from a […]
Exclusive to Insiders: Zohran Mamdani’s Victory and What It Means for Progressive Governance
NEW YORK CITY — On election night the cafés of Astoria pulsed with a kind of civic electricity. Taxi drivers leaned out of windows, students spilled onto Steinway Street, and volunteers who had been knocking on doors for months hugged in disbelief. When the final count came in, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani — the 33-year-old son of Ugandan-Indian immigrants […]
Exclusive to Insiders: Tropical Forest Forever Facility Launches at COP30 With $5.5 Billion and 53 Nations
A working lunch at the Belém Climate Summit turned into a decisive financing moment as leaders from more than thirty countries and the UN Secretary-General joined Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to launch the Tropical Forest Forever Facility at the COP30 Leaders’ Summit. The agreement sets in motion a mechanism that pays countries […]
