Highlights and images for 11 November 2025

As delegates kicked off substantive negotiations on a wide range of issues, conversations throughout Tuesday highlighted parties’ diverging expectations at the Belém Climate Change Conference. In light of a shortfall in ambition in the latest round of nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement, various developed and developing country groups are calling for a collective response to keep the 1.5°C goal within reach. However, the Like-Minded Developing Countries and the Arab Group are wary to see the Paris Agreement cycle disrupted.

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Developing countries identified the lack of means of implementation—meaning finance, technology transfer, and capacity-building—as a key barrier to stepping up ambition and implementation. Several groups also underscored the impacts of unilateral trade-restrictive measures, such as carbon border adjustments. Cognizant of interlinkages, the Presidency held consultations on a basket of these contentious issues, inviting parties to identify bridging proposals. No such proposals have materialized thus far, although consultations are ongoing.

Negotiations on a number of other issues underscored parties’ entrenched divergence of views, including those on the mitigation work programme and the just transition work programme. The discussions on the Global Goal on Adaptation were similarly protracted. While adopting a set of indicators to track collective progress towards the goal is widely considered one of the key outputs of this meeting, some countries suggested to continue revising the indicators until 2027.

Taking up Brazilian President Lula’s labelling of the meeting as the “COP of truth,” some parties urged strong language on the role of science and the new temperature records having been set in 2024. Others found this language “misleading” and “alarmist.”

While discussions are still ongoing regarding Australia and Türkiye’s bid for hosting the climate negotiations in November 2026, the African region announced their nomination of Ethiopia as host of the 2027 session–with the confirmation of the host up to the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).