Under the dense canopy of Pará’s eastern frontier, the Inter-American Development Bank chose COP30 to introduce a new financial instrument with the potential to shift how the world restores the Amazon. The announcement marked a breakthrough not only for Brazil but for multilateral development finance: the first guarantee ever issued
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
Brazil’s Special Envoy for Health Ethel Maciel is redefining climate diplomacy through the lens of human wellbeing. As COP30 unfolds in Belém, a new voice is helping reshape how the world thinks about climate action. Ethel Maciel, Brazil’s Special Envoy for Health, is ensuring that global negotiations recognize a truth
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
Belém – 12 November 2025, On Day 2 in Belém, COP30 shifted from global promises to local implementation. Ministers, mayors and regional leaders used the Amazon summit to show how climate action becomes real in streets, homes and utilities — through heat plans, housing policy, water infrastructure and waste systems
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
Belém, Brazil — November 10, 2025Morning heat shimmers over the banks of the Guamá River as negotiators and executives converge on Belém, the Amazon’s largest port city. Beneath banners calling for “Implementation Now,” the thirtieth United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) opens amid a sense that time—and political patience—is running
As delegates arrive at COP30 Belém under heavy Amazonian skies, the tone of this COP is markedly different from past summits. The air carries both urgency and expectation: $300 billion in climate-related damages last year have clarified the stakes, while new technologies and financial models hint at a pathway to
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
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:
