COP30 Talks Stall on Agenda Fights as Adaptation Metrics Face New Delay Push

Overview

• Four sensitive topics—NDC ambition gaps, public climate finance, unilateral trade measures, and transparency reporting—remain outside the formal agenda, keeping negotiations in a procedural deadlock.
• The Global Goal on Adaptation talks hit a fresh snag as the African Group pressed to extend technical work on the 100 indicators for two more years rather than adopt them in Belém.
• EU negotiators rejected a simple North–South framing, backed discussion of all contested items including transparency, and signaled a potential way forward through a cover decision.
• A new UNFCCC deadline has yielded 112 updated national climate plans, yet negotiators and observers note the combined pledges still fall short of a 1.5°C pathway.
• Thirty-seven lawmakers from 12 Latin American countries issued a COP30 declaration urging strict sustainability rules for critical minerals and calling for climate finance that avoids new debt.