COP30 concludes in Brazil with new global climate action agreement

The 30th UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) concluded Saturday in Belem, Brazil, marking the approval of a comprehensive climate action during its closing session.

Titled "Global Mutirao: Uniting humanity in a global mobilization against climate change," the document calls on countries to take proactive measures in tackling climate change and accelerate climate action.

It calls for efforts to "at least triple" adaptation finance by 2035 and urges developed countries to increase the trajectory of their collective provision of climate finance for adaptation to developing nations.

Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, praised the significant breakthroughs made during the COP30.

"For the first time, 194 nations said in unison that the global transition to low greenhouse gas emissions and climate resilience is irreversible, and the trend of nature," said Stiell.

He said the nations agreed to every word of the declaration because its authenticity is backed by investment flows into renewables, which doubled fossil fuels. "This is a political and market signal that cannot be ignored."

Stiell emphasized that in the new era, climate process must be more closely integrated with the real economy to deliver concrete results more quickly, ensuring that billions of people can share in the benefits.

Through the COP30 action agenda, achievements have been made: $1 trillion invested in building clean energy grids, hundreds of millions of hectares of forests, land and oceans protected or restored, and over 400 million people enhanced in their climate resilience.

These accomplishments are not minor progress, but are "real-world progress on the things billions of people care about most," Stiell concluded.