The president of the 2025 United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP30), André Corrêa do Lago, released, this Saturday, 08, the ninth open letter to the international community, calling on governments, institutions and global actors to respond to climate change with determined action and shared purpose. The text highlights the crucial challenge of keeping the 1.5 ºC objective alive, by accelerating implementation and strengthening international cooperation.
The document invites all actors to transform global climate gaps into levers for transformation. Building on recent reports – including the Global Tipping Points Report, the UNEP Emissions and Adaptation Gap Reports, and the UNFCCC Synthesis of NDCs – the letter recognizes the scale of the challenges and the tools available to address them.
“The challenge is not just identifying what is missing, but mobilizing what drives it – converting deficits in ambition, financing and technology into forces of acceleration”, writes Corrêa do Lago, highlighting that the letter reaffirms that the Paris Agreement is working.
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The text also reiterates the three interconnected priorities that guide the Brazilian Presidency’s vision for COP30: strengthening multilateralism and the climate regime under the United Nations’ climate change agreements, connecting the climate regime to people’s real lives and the real economy, and accelerating the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
In the letter, the COP30 presidency calls on countries and global actors to accelerate the implementation of the Paris Agreement negotiations, which range from clean energy to forest restoration, from methane mitigation to digital infrastructure.
These solutions are being promoted in the negotiation agenda, the Action Agenda, the Belém Climate Summit and the Global Mutirão. Structured around six thematic axes, the Action Agenda will act as a platform to channel global cooperation and coordination around positive inflection points. From finance to forests, from energy to entrepreneurship, Belém will offer a platform for convergence – where local and global efforts strengthen each other.
The Presidency also emphasizes the Amazon as a context and catalyst. With deforestation falling for the third consecutive year in Brazil, and with new financial mechanisms such as the Tropical Forests Forever Fund (TFFF), the letter highlights that protecting ecosystems and people must go hand in hand.
“In Belém, truth must find transformation, and science must become solidarity,” writes Corrêa do Lago. “COP30 could be the COP where we change the course of the climate fight.”
