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Brazil is formally elected host country for COP 30

The announcement was made official during the plenary session of COP 28 in Dubai. The event will take place in Belém, Pará, for the first time in an Amazonian city. It was also announced that COP 29, in 2024, will be held in Azerbaijan

Published Dec 11 2023 07:35 PM

The decision to host the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP 30) in Brazil between November 10 and 21, 2025 was approved on Monday, December 11.

Holding COP 30 in the heart of the forest is a powerful reminder of our responsibility to keep the planet within our 1.5°C target"

Marina Silva, Minister for the Environment and Climate Change

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The decision was taken by consensus at the plenary session of COP 28, which is being held in Dubai. Following the decision, the Minister for the Environment and Climate Change and head of the Brazilian delegation, Marina Silva, formally announced that COP 30 will be held in the city of Belém do Pará. It will be the first time that the Amazon, an essential biome for combating climate change, will host a UNFCCC COP.

» Full speech by Minister Marina Silva (Environment and Climate Change)

» High resolution photos (Flickr)

"The Amazon shows us the way, with its immense biodiversity and huge territory threatened by climate change. It reminds us how intertwined the three Rio Conventions are in their challenges, but also in the synergistic solutions they encompass. Holding COP 30 in the heart of the forest is a powerful reminder of our responsibility to keep the planet within our 1.5°C target," affirmed Marina Silva.
Minister Marina Silva, head of the Brazilian delegation in Dubai, during the meeting that formalized the first COP in an Amazonian city. Photo: Estevam/Audiovisual/PRMinister Marina Silva, head of the Brazilian delegation in Dubai, during the meeting that formalized the first COP in an Amazonian city. Photo: Estevam/Audiovisual/PR

BACKGROUND - The candidature to host COP 30 in Belém was announced by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as president-elect, during his participation in COP 27 in Sharm-el-Sheikh in November 2022, and endorsed by the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States in May 2023. In August 2023, Belém hosted the Amazon Summit (IV Meeting of Presidents of the States Parties to the Amazon Cooperation Treaty, ACTO). On Monday it was also decided that COP 29 will be held in Azerbaijan.

COP 28, which is still underway, should conclude the first global balance sheet of the Paris Agreement. COP 29, in 2024, will define the new quantifiable climate finance objective. By COP 30 in 2025, countries will present the second round of nationally determined contributions (NDCs).

The climate emergency requires all countries to redouble their efforts to implement the NDCs already assumed in the two years leading up to COP 30. And that, in Belém do Pará, with the necessary means of implementation, all countries can announce more ambitious NDCs....

Read the full news release here

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