SDG News’ Heeta Lakhani interviews Juan Carlos Monterrey – Panama’s climate envoy and COP30 Bureau Vice President – on forests, fossil fuels and the urgent text negotiations underway inside the summit. Belém — As COP30 enters the most pressurised stretch of its second week, the corridors outside the Amazon Room
Deloitte’s pavilion in the COP30 Green Zone has become one of the conference’s most active business hubs, hosting a packed agenda designed to translate global climate goals into concrete pathways for corporate action. Across ten thematic days, the firm used its platform in Belém to spotlight nature-based solutions, supply-chain transformation,
At COP30 in Belém, where outcomes are shaped as much in the corridors as on the official agenda, SDG News is guided by a correspondent whose understanding of the climate negotiations has been forged over a decade of global youth leadership. WATCH HEETA’S LATEST COP30 INTERVIEWS: Heeta Lakhani first entered
The thick Amazon air hung heavy over Belém as delegates filed back into COP30’s cavernous halls for the summit’s final—and most consequential—stretch. Before negotiations resumed, a video appearance by Pope Leo set a sharper tone than any procedural gavel could. His message was direct: governments are not moving fast enough,
In Belém, as COP30 brought global attention back to the Amazon, Brazil made one of its most strategic climate governance announcements in years: the creation of Ecora, a national carbon credit certifier designed to reshape the architecture of Brazil’s carbon markets and anchor the country’s rising influence in the global
Belém — 17 November 2025, Less than twenty-four hours after diplomats in Belém digested Ethiopia’s confirmation as COP32 host for 2027, the focus shifted back to the unresolved question overshadowing COP30: the COP31 hosting decision for 2026. What appeared to be a potential breakthrough — Turkey’s proposal for a joint
By World Economic Forum (WEF) Ten years on from the Paris Agreement, there is a push to move from political commitments to implementation. This is even more pressing as global temperatures exceeded the Agreement’s limit of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for the first time last year. However, geopolitics, climate finance shortfalls –
As negotiations intensified inside COP30’s vast plenary halls in Belém, the future map of global climate diplomacy came sharply into focus. Ethiopia clinched the hosting rights for COP32 in 2027, marking the continent’s next major climate summit and elevating Addis Ababa as an emerging diplomatic hub. But the decision that
Under the intense Amazon sun, where heat, flooding and infectious disease already shape daily life, Brazil used COP30 to launch the first global climate adaptation framework dedicated to the health sector. The Belém Health Action Plan gathered ministers, UN leaders and health authorities around a shared acknowledgment: climate change is
In a packed Brazil Pavilion in the COP30 Green Zone, government officials, UN representatives, advertisers and civil society leaders gathered around a different kind of climate tool. Instead of a new fund or technology, they launched a Statement and Commitment Letter on climate information integrity in digital advertising, treating the
