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1.5°C and the Perils of Ignoring Science: Tipping Points in the Cryosphere, Their Impacts, and How to Avoid Them
Cryosphere science shows irreversible ice loss is underway, but can be slowed with emission cuts. At a side event, scientists warned negotiators often soften evidence, urging choices guided by science.
From Forest to Finance: Unlocking Biodiversity and Carbon Sequestration through Nature-based Solutions in Guatemala
Seeking to open new fronts in the climate fight, researchers, policymakers, and aid agencies shared their experiences in developing credit markets and science-based measures to scale up finance for nature-based solutions.
From Ambition to Action: Unlocking Climate-SDG Synergies
Experts at a side event showcased how linking climate action with development priorities can save money, improve results, and support communities, sharing new research that identifies practical ways countries can achieve more by acting on both together.
COP 30 Health Day
A morning session opened Health Day at COP 30, uniting Parties and partners to endorse the Belém Health Action Plan and discuss the finance, coordination, and practical measures needed to protect communities facing rising climate-related health risks.
NDCs and Territorial Rights: Strengthening National Climate Ambition through Community Action
In a side event foregrounding the need to protect Indigenous land tenure rights, stakeholders shared on-the-ground experiences with pushing for and integrating territorial recognitions into effective national climate action plans.
Indigenous Peoples and NDCs 3.0: Rights, Recognition, and Way Forward
While more countries now mention Indigenous Peoples in their climate pledges, this multilingual side event revealed that recognition remains uneven and largely symbolic, urging genuine rights-based participation across NDC design and implementation.
High-level Meeting of the Baku Dialogue on Water for Climate Action
Stakeholders underscored their resolve to put water considerations at the heart of the climate agenda and accelerate the Dialogue’s COP-to-COP momentum.
From Trade-offs to Synergies: Aligning Climate and Biodiversity Policies
What would it take to unite climate and biodiversity agendas? Speakers from science and policy stress that neither can succeed alone, urging collaboration, better data, and funding to bridge divides and protect both ecosystems and the climate.
Tracking, evaluating, and learning to better adapt: Francophone perspectives for implementing the Global Goal on Adaptation in agricultural sectors
As COP30 tackles how to measure progress on adaptation, a side event brings together speakers from francophone countries on how they track, learn, and fund climate-resilient agriculture.