Highlights and images for 18 November 2025

Delegates were greeted with a fresh set of draft decision texts published overnight. Some, such as the text on ex ante climate finance reporting, were still replete with brackets, signalling persistent disagreement on a range of elements.

The draft text on matters related to the Global Stocktake (GST) under the Paris Agreement—now combining the consideration of procedures for the next GST, an annual Dialogue on how the GST informs the preparation of nationally determined contributions (NDCs), and a yet-to-be operationalized dialogue on GST implementation—still contained a multitude of incompatible options, with many calling for “no text” as alternatives to other countries’ proposals.

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Notably, the Presidency released a draft “Global Mutirão” decision on “uniting humanity in a global mobilization against climate change.” The decision celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement and recognizes that the Agreement is entering its first full implementation cycle. The crux of the disagreements concentrates on the decision’s forward-looking section on accelerating implementation, especially with regard to:

• how to go about just transition;
• NDC ambition and implementation, possibly in terms of 1.5°C-alignment, energy transition, and forest-related action;
• a potential new target for adaptation finance;
• various proposals for future work on finance, including calls to establish burden-sharing arrangements and a de-risking and project preparation facility; and
• consideration of trade-climate linkages, with possible input by the World Trade Organization.

Technical-level negotiations on a range of issues continued throughout the day, mostly in informal informals, with informal consultations being repeatedly delayed or interrupted for Parties to huddle. Delegates working on reporting under the Paris Agreement’s Enhanced Transparency Framework managed to streamline a list of potential activities to support developing countries’ reporting, but agreement remained elusive on several of them.

Divergences remained especially striking in the negotiations on indicators for tracking progress towards the Global Goal on Adaptation, with Parties still disagreeing on whether to formally adopt a list of indicators in Belém at all. Discussions on the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, by contrast, yielded agreement.

In the afternoon, the Presidency briefly invited Parties to another “Mutirão.” Highlighting its goal of “finishing work at an unprecedented pace,” the Presidency updated delegates about the intended way forward:

• the ministerial pairs are expected to brief the Presidency at 5:00 pm;
• technical discussions are expected to conclude by 7:00 pm;
• Parties are to consult with one another to agree on compromise or bridging proposals by 7:00 pm; and
• the three sets of information will be used to develop the final “Mutirão package.”