{"id":221985,"date":"2025-10-13T17:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/221985\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:13:12","slug":"trees-targets-and-trillions-whats-on-the-agenda-at-cop30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/221985\/","title":{"rendered":"Trees, targets and trillions: What’s on the agenda at COP30?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest round of pledges for 2035 were due in February to give the UN time before COP30 to assess the quality of these commitments.<\/p>\n

Most nations missed that deadline, but by early October, about 60 had turned in their revised plans. Few have impressed, and China’s target in particular<\/a> fell well below expectations.<\/p>\n

The European Union, riven by infighting, cannot agree on its target, while India is another major emitter yet to finalise its pledge.<\/p>\n

A reckoning could be coming in Belem. Brazil – which described the latest round of pledges as “the vision of our shared future” – is facing pressure to marshal a response.<\/p>\n

MONEY<\/p>\n

Money – specifically, how much rich countries give poorer ones to adapt to climate change and shift to a low-carbon future – is a likely point of conflict in Belem, as in past COPs.<\/p>\n

Last year, after a fortnight of acrimonious haggling, COP29 ended unhappily with developed nations agreeing to provide US$300 billion a year in climate finance to developing ones by 2035, well below what is needed.<\/p>\n

They also set a much less specific target of helping raise US$1.3 trillion annually by 2035 from public and private sources. Developing nations will be demanding some actual details about this at COP30.<\/p>\n

Adaptation finance – for example, to build coastal defences to protect against rising seas<\/a> – is on the formal agenda, with a new fundraising target possibly up for negotiation as an old commitment expires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest round of pledges for 2035 were due in February to give the UN time before COP30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[941,55797,192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-221985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-climate-adaptation","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}