Highlights and images for 14 November 2025

In the morning, long lines formed outside the venue of the Belém Climate Change Conference. Following a blockage of the main entrance by Indigenous activists, armed guards funnelled delegates in through a side door. Despite the stark imagery of the entire scene, everything remained peaceful, and the negotiations started without a hitch.

Want to dig deeper into today's talks? Read the full Earth Negotiations Bulletin daily report.

As is typically the case towards the end of the first week of any UN Climate Conference, the negotiation schedule was very volatile. Scheduled sessions were cancelled, extended, or postponed as Parties sought additional time for informal engagement before wrapping up draft conclusions to be adopted during the Subsidiary Bodies’ closing plenary on Saturday.

In principle, only those issues that are also on the agendas of the governing bodies to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Kyoto Protocol, and Paris Agreement continue to be discussed during the second week. If Parties do not manage to reach agreement on matters that are exclusive to the Subsidiary Bodies, further consideration would be delayed until the 2026 June Climate Meetings.

First discussions to land an agreement included: 

• arrangements for intergovernmental meetings, with some expressing disappointment over the conclusions’ lack of ambition and stressing the importance of improving the efficiency of the UNFCCC process; and
• matters relating to least developed countries.

Other issues saw little progress, including those on the procedures for the Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement. In the science-related negotiations, Saudi Arabia opposed a call to enhance efforts to counter misinformation. 

No less than fifteen sessions were scheduled in the evening, with the most prominent ones touching on: indicators for the Global Goal on Adaptation; the development of a new gender action plan; and just transition.