Overview
- Brazil sent a direct letter to delegations and released a nine‑page first draft with 21 options to push negotiations into a faster, minister‑led phase.
- The draft highlights finance choices, including tripling adaptation support for developing countries by 2030 or 2035 and guidance on allocating a proposed $300 billion in climate aid with stronger transparency.
- On fossil fuels, the text presents divergent paths ranging from a phaseout roadmap to a workshop or high‑level roundtable on reducing dependence, with an option to include no text at all.
- The proposal raises shifting from five‑year to annual assessments of national climate pledges and lays out four responses to trade tensions, including a potential UN Secretary‑General‑convened summit on climate trade disputes.
- Negotiators face a tight timetable to narrow options by midweek as the talks enter a high‑pressure stretch influenced by large civil‑society mobilization in Belém.