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COP-30 in Belém, Brazil: Our dossier on the UN Climate Change Conference in November 2025 provides facts, information, and analyses.

Addressing climate change is crucial for a sustainable future and the quality of life for future generations. ➤ On this page, you will find current articles, publications, and thematic focuses on climate, climate change, and climate policy.

The 27th UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) will take place from 6th to 18th of November 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The focus of this COP is the support of the countries of the Global South by the richer industrialised countries, which are responsible for the largest share of greenhouse gas emissions.

We are following the work of the IPCC, currently in the 7th Assessment Cycle, particularly with regard to the topics of net-zero, “overshoot” of 1.5 degrees, and high-risk geoengineering technologies such as solar geoengineering (SRM) and technological CO2 removal (Carbon Dioxide Removal, CDR).

Environmental and climate crises are not gender neutral. They disproportionately affect people already facing multiple forms of discrimination. If feminist environmental policy is to extend beyond the effects on women, it needs to combine gender and ecological expertise. This dossier features a selection of the Heinrich Böll Foundation's contributions over recent decades to international debates on environmental and gender justice.  

Our focus on the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 26) in Glasgow, Scotland. Among other things, the focus of this COP will be on raising ambition, significantly increasing climate finance, and the issue of financial compensation for climate damage and loss.

The 25th Conference of the Parties (COP 25) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place under the Presidency of the Government of Chile from 2 to 13 December in Madrid, Spain. A key objective is to complete several matters with respect to the full operationalization of the Paris Agreement which includes a need to increase national ambition. Despite the relocation of the COP the civil society People’s Summit will take place in Santiago de Chile.