COP30 Fast-Tracks Belém Package With Negotiators' Force-Task for Midweek Plenary

Overview

• A two-stage plan targets a first set of decisions for plenary approval on Wednesday, November 19, with remaining items due by Friday, November 21.
• The fast-tracked docket includes the Global Goal on Adaptation, just transition work, national adaptation plans, the mitigation work program, and guidance on climate finance.
• Finance items span the Standing Committee on Finance, the Green Climate Fund, the Global Environment Facility, the Adaptation Fund, and guidance to the Loss and Damage Fund.
• The presidency will ask the UNFCCC to allow indefinite extended operating hours so negotiating groups can work as long as needed.
• Civil-society groups welcomed the procedural push yet cautioned that the package’s content ranges from stronger to weaker options and remains open.