COP30: UN Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil

The annual COP (Conference of the Parties) is the highest decision-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the primary multilateral forum for international climate policy. Here, the 198 signatory states negotiate agreements and assess progress in addressing the climate crisis. We provide an overview of past conferences and the current COP.

Mehrere Hochhäuser hinter Flussufer mit Boot und Häusern im Vordergrund, Rauch steigt zwischen Bäumen auf. — Image credits

About the COP30

COP30 will take place from November 10 to 21, 2025, in Belém, Brazil.

COP30: Overview

COP30 in Brazil: Climate Change and the Point of No Return

Climate governance has been captured by solutions that involve the financialization of nature. The first COP in the Amazon is an opportunity to face the impacts of these projects, betting on the rights and territorial sovereignty of Amazonian populations.

By Camila Moreno

Publication

A change of course. On the road to a climate-just world

Is it utopian to insist on a good life for all in the face of the climate crisis? No more unrealistic than the utopia of endless growth on a finite planet on the backs of the weakest. On the road to a climate-just world” describes ways to create a sustainable world worth living in for everyone - and exposes false hopes and dangerous false solutions.

By Susanne Schwarz, Verena Kern, Linda Schneider , Johanna Sydow, Susann Scherbarth and Anika Schroeder

COP30: Regional Perspectives

Brazil: Facts, data, and knowledge about the world's largest rainforest

Amazon Atlas

Since its colonization, the Amazon region has served as a projection surface for foreign ideas and desires. With the Brazilian Amazon Atlas, we want to deconstruct common stereotypes about the region - and show it from the perspective of its diverse inhabitants.

By Imme Scholz, Marcelo Montenegro, Julia Dolce and Regine Schönenberg

Photo: Two people walk along a narrow path in a lush, tropical landscape with tall palm trees. The sky is partly cloudy.

Brazil: Agroecology as a Climate Solution Based on Territory

Background

The concept of land liberation through agroecology includes, in turn, the freedom of forests, in opposition to forms of privatization, commodification, and financialization of nature that reduce forests to mere credits.

By Ariana Gomes, Diogo Cabral and Pedro Martins

Overview of Past Climate Conferences (COP 2013 - 2023)

COP29: Baku

COP26: Glasgow

COP23: Bonn

COP20: Lima

Blick aus Luft auf die Skyline von Dubai, dahinter sandige Böden und staubige Luft

COP28: Dubai

COP25: Madrid

COP22: Marrakech

COP19: Warsaw

COP27: Sharm El Sheikh

COP24: Katowice

COP21: Paris

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