Overview
- Substantive negotiations involving officials and ministers began on Nov. 10 in Belém, with talks scheduled through Nov. 21 to produce an outcome document.
- Reporting from the opening sessions underscores that keeping global warming to 1.5°C under the Paris Agreement is in a difficult position.
- A 30‑country Ipsos survey found only 12% knew COP30 is in Belém, with 49% viewing COPs as merely symbolic compared with 34% who see effective results.
- In the same survey, 65% support requiring companies to direct part of their profits to climate finance, while support in Japan was the lowest at 45%.
- Talks are set against COP29’s finance targets of at least $300 billion per year led by developed countries for developing nations by 2035 and $1.3 trillion annually in global public‑private flows, as ministers including Japan’s Hirotaka Ishihara prepare to participate amid delayed NDC submissions and a stated U.S. withdrawal from the Paris framework.