Overview
- Speaking for BASIC and the LMDC, India pressed full implementation of Paris Agreement Article 9.1 at the opening plenary after the item was excluded from the formal agenda.
- Brazil, as COP30 president, kept Article 9.1 off the provisional agenda and offered a special stocktake session for detailed discussion.
- India called for a clear, universally agreed definition of climate finance and highlighted the gap between the Baku outcome of about $300 billion a year from 2035 and developing countries’ $1.3 trillion demand.
- It urged a roughly 15-fold increase in adaptation finance, noting that international public adaptation funding remains far short of needs and off track for the 2025 doubling goal.
- India warned that unilateral trade measures such as the EU’s CBAM undermine multilateralism and urged earlier net-zero timelines, greater investment in negative-emission technologies, and delivery on finance, technology transfer and capacity-building, while backing the GGA, the UAE–Belém Work Programme and the Baku Adaptation Roadmap.