COP30 Enters Political Phase After People’s Summit Delivers Demands

Overview

• COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago said he will present and register the People’s Summit letter at the start of ministerial talks on November 17.
• President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva confirmed he will return to Belém on November 19 for the decisive final week and outreach with leaders and civil society, a message read by Environment Minister Marina Silva.
• Organizers reported roughly 70,000 participants as the People’s Summit closed with a declaration rejecting “false solutions” and calling for indigenous land demarcation, agrarian reform, a phaseout of fossil fuels, and public financing for a just transition.
• Talks remain split between developed and developing countries over the scale and form of climate finance, adaptation priorities, and how to fund the losses-and-damage mechanism established at COP27.
• Technical proposals gained visibility, including the Belém Health Action Plan and Brazil’s Tropical Forests Forever Fund concept of about US$125 billion, though both remain under negotiation.