Ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries have gathered in the Amazonian city of Belem, with Brazil insisting this will be “the Cop of implementation”.
There has already been significant wrangling over the Cop30 agenda, with Simon Evans, a journalist from Carbon Brief, posting on on Bluesky yesterday afternoon that the agenda was already on its fourth iteration.
“Agenda fights have been common in recent years,” Evans reports, citing similar disagreements ahead of Cop29 in Azerbaijan. The negotiations cannot actually get started until the parties agree on what it is they will talk about.
Among the potential items on the agenda are two from the “like-minded developing countries”, a bloc that includes Bolivia, China, India and Saudi Arabia, including one calling for a new, more ambitious finance goal and another for discussion of “unilateral trade-restrictive measures”.
Honduras, Suriname and Papua New Guinea want to discuss deforestation finance. Small island states want space in the agenda to discuss how to “accelerate implementation & drive ambition toward 1.5C”, with the current process “insufficient for addressing the need for accelerated action”, they say.
