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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Rappler is covering the United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP30 happening in Belém, Brazil, from November 10 to 21, 2025.
Considered by many as the inflection point of global climate action, COP30 is happening 10 years since nations adopted the historic Paris Agreement — a legally binding international treaty on climate change. Biggest historic emitter United States, under Donald Trump, withdrew from the agreement for a second time earlier this year.
The conference comes on the heels of a “sweeping” International Court of Justice advisory opinion on climate change. This is also the year that parties to the Paris Agreement, including the Philippines, are expected to update their Nationally Determined Contributions. The Philippines, the host of the Loss and Damage Fund Board, has yet to update its NDCs.
According to COP30 host Brazil, the main challenges of this year’s summit include “aligning the commitments of developed and developing countries in relation to climate finance, ensuring that emission reduction targets are compatible with climate science, and dealing with the socio-economic impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations.”
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Australia PM says formal deal reached for Turkey to host COP31 climate summit
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday, November 23, a formal agreement had been reached for Turkey to host the COP31 climate summit in 2026, confirming a document released at the COP30 summit in Brazil.
A statement issued by Germany this week at the COP30 summit, after a meeting of the Western European and Others Group tasked with selecting the 2026 host, said Turkey would take the role with Australia leading the negotiation process. It followed an earlier announcement that a compromise arrangement was expected.
“Formal agreement has been reached for COP31 to be hosted by Turkey in Antalya, with the Pacific’s interests advanced by Australia assuming the role of President of Negotiations in the lead up to and at the meeting,” Albanese said in a statement.
Australia would have “exclusive authority in relation to the negotiations” guiding decision making at the summit, according to the statement, which said the Pacific region would host a special pre-COP meeting to bring “attention to the existential threat climate change poses to the region.”
Next step? Turning momentum on fossil fuel roadmap into plan
Despite the resounding disappointment among parties toward the final text presented at the closing plenary, there was a silver lining.
International environmental group 350.org said momentum for a fossil fuel phaseout roadmap is “accelerating rapidly,” garnering support from more than 80 countries.
350.org said in a statement Saturday, November 22: “Now that this coalition exists, the next step must be turning momentum into a plan. The Colombia fossil fuel phaseout conference in April and the Colombia-Netherlands-Brazil process must deliver the substance, benchmarks, and institutional backing needed to shape a credible global phaseout roadmap.”
WATCH: Panama ‘extremely disappointed’ over adaptation outcomes at COP30
After the COP30 deal was gaveled on Saturday, November 22, Panama said it could not endorse a global goal on adaptation outcome “that takes us backwards.”
“This is not how we will get that global goal on adaptation…. Paragraph 8 is unacceptable, saying that these indicators create no financial obligations, when we all know that [National Adaptation Plans] and GGA cannot move without finance, makes the entire exercise meaningless,” Panama said in its intervention.
COP30 closing session suspended following complaints over procedure
COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago on Saturday, November 22, suspended the closing plenary of the UN climate summit after several countries complained that their concerns about parts of the deal had not been heard properly.
WATCH: World secures compromise deal at COP30 that sidesteps fossil fuels
World governments agreed on Saturday, November 22, to a compromise climate deal at the COP30 conference in Brazil that would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming but omit any mention of the fossil fuels driving it.
First international conference for fossil fuel phaseout announced at COP30
After announcing plans to create roadmaps to tackle deforestation and fossil fuels, COP30 president Andre Correa Do Lago on Saturday, November 22, mentioned the first international conference for the phaseout of fossil fuels set to take place in April 2026 in Colombia.
COP30 president to create roadmaps to tackle deforestation, fossil fuels
After nations agreed on a compromise climate deal, COP30 president Andre Correa Do Lago revealed during the closing plenary on Saturday, November 22, plans to create roadmaps on halting and reversing deforestation and transitioning away from fossil fuels.
“We need roadmaps so that humanity, in a just and planned manner, can overcome its dependence on fossil fuels, halt and reverse deforestation, and mobilize resources for these purposes. I, as president of COP30, will therefore create two roadmaps: one on halting and reversing deforestation, another to transition away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly, and equitable manner.”
COP30 closing plenary begins
COP30 president Andre Correa Do Lago led the closing plenary of this year’s United Nations climate talks on Saturday, November 22 (Sunday, November 23, Manila time).
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