Overview

• Negotiators from 67 countries ended two days of talks in Brasília with no formal deals but clearer positions, informal pre‑consensus on select items and a map of roughly 140 topics.
• The presidency is testing ways to prevent a late re‑opening of the COP30 agenda after warnings that debates over concessional finance and unilateral trade measures could delay proceedings.
• Brazil and partners outlined the Tropical Forests Forever Facility at a proposed scale of US$125 billion with 20% directed to Indigenous and traditional communities and a US$4‑per‑hectare preservation payment.
• Only 62 of 195 countries have submitted updated NDCs covering about 31% of global emissions, reinforcing calls for a COP focused on implementation and renewed multilateral coordination.
• Talks featured friction over fossil‑fuel language with Saudi representatives, stronger engagement by China and India than usual for a pre‑COP, and a Brazil‑Italy‑Japan‑India pledge to quadruple sustainable fuels by 2035.