Overview
- Pará governor Helder Barbalho and Belém mayor Igor Normando condemned Friedrich Merz’s post‑trip comments about the host city as prejudiced and arrogant.
- Germany moved to limit the fallout as Environment Minister Carsten Schneider praised Belém from the COP30 podium and a government spokesperson highlighted Merz’s partnership message to Brazil.
- Brazil’s COP30 presidency released a nine‑page ‘Global Mutirão’ draft that keeps multiple, conflicting options on climate finance, fossil‑fuel transition and trade measures on the table.
- The text includes proposals to triple adaptation funding by 2030 or 2035, consider annual updates of national targets, and debate handling of unilateral trade tools such as the EU’s CBAM, drawing EU pushback and NGO criticism.
- Lula is set to return to Belém to press negotiators, while Germany announced €138 million for renewables grid expansion in the Global South and Merz’s pledge to the new tropical forest fund remained without a figure.