Highlights and images for 15 November 2025

In their closing plenaries, the Subsidiary Bodies (SBs) adopted a number of conclusions and recommended draft decisions for adoption by the governing bodies of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Kyoto Protocol, and Paris Agreement. These relate to least developed countries, support for developing countries’ reporting under the UNFCCC, and capacity-building, among others.

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The SBs’ closing plenaries also provided a stage for many groups and Parties to air their complaints and frustrations. The European Union (EU), Chile, Australia, Bangladesh, New Zealand, the UK, and Canada denounced Parties’ inability to agree on a reference to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change providing best available science, and to new temperature records set in 2024.

The Group of 77 and China expressed disappointment that no outcome could be reached on the joint annual report of the Technology Executive Committee and Climate Technology Centre and Network. They appealed to all countries to make progress on other technology issues during the second week of the conference. The African Group asked for assurances that the Consultative Group of Experts, which supports developing countries’ reporting efforts, would be properly funded to carry out its activities in 2026.

In the evening, the governing bodies adopted the decisions recommended to them by the SBs. Delegates were then informed that work during the second week would continue across three tracks that will inform each other:

• ministerial consultations on political issues related to the Global Stocktake, the Global Goal on Adaptation, finance, mitigation, just transition, technology, and gender;
• continued technical negotiations, to conclude by Tuesday, 18 November; and
• Presidency consultations on, among others, cooperation with international organizations.

In addition, the Presidency will convene a “Mutirão” at the ministerial and head of delegation level. UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell and André Corrêa do Lago, President of the thirtieth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 30) to the UNFCCC, invited Parties to work together towards compromises amenable to all.