The Belém conference on climate change has commenced its proceedings.

The 30th Conference on Climate Change (COP 30) will take place from 10 to 21 November 2025 in Belém, Brazil. Ten years after the signing of the Paris Agreement, the Belém climate conference opens at a time when the global average temperature has risen by 1.42°C above pre-industrial levels. One of the objectives of COP 30 will be to define a timetable for phasing out fossil fuels, differentiated according to each country's historical responsibility for climate change. The countries of the South, for their part, will be keen to advance the climate finance agenda. At COP 29 in Baku, OECD countries pledged to provide $300 billion per year in aid to countries in the Global South by 2035 to help them tackle global warming. However, according to UN estimates, the Global South will need $1.3 trillion in climate aid per year by 2035.