Overview
- Negotiations shifted to high-level bargaining with climate finance, stronger national targets and monitoring, and trade-linked measures under debate, according to conference officials.
- Indigenous-led marches and direct actions, including a Blue Zone incursion and a blockade of the main gate, intensified demands for territorial protection and a fossil fuel phaseout.
- Brazil promoted a $125 billion Tropical Forests fund to be run through the World Bank even as Petrobras secured a license to drill in the Amazon river‑mouth basin.
- The United States under President Donald Trump skipped the leaders’ summit and did not send senior representatives to technical talks, reducing high-level engagement.
- New data indicate fossil CO2 emissions are set to hit a 2025 record, up 1.1% from last year, while roughly half of attending countries still lack published climate plans.