OMNI United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 30 ANTHOLOGY November 10, 2025

 

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United Nations Climate Change Conference

COP 30 ANTHOLOGY

November 10, 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, Ecology, and Democracy

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COP 30 BEGINS NOVEMBER 10

What’s at Stake: The two-week conference will convene most of the world’s nations to accelerate action toward the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Marking 10 years since the Paris Agreement — when nearly every country pledged to limit global warming to well below 2ºC compared to pre-industrial levels — this year’s conference comes at a pivotal moment, amid growing evidence of the need for stronger and faster global climate action. 

 

TEXTS COP30

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP30).   The 30th year of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

“Tell the Trump Administration: Attend COP30 & Act on Climate. “  Tipping Point, Part of the Civic Shout activist network.  11-9-25.   Sign the Petition

Dick,
Climate change is accelerating at an alarming rate, and the U.S. is reportedly planning to skip COP 30, the United Nations climate summit to be held in Brazil.    The White House is now telling journalists that the United States will not send high-level representatives to the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil and that, instead, Donald Trump is working with world leaders on energy policies as a part of trade deals.

That decision is an unacceptable refusal to engage on climate — not just “energy” — at the leadership level, even as the world burns, floods, and churns with deadly storms.    The White House must reconsider and reverse this course and send senior-level U.S. officials to COP30 — the world’s leading forum for global climate action.

This is not about window dressing. The United States must:
Participate in meaningful negotiations alongside other nations, not skirt the table.
Signal our commitment to working with the world rather than stepping offstage.
Rebuild trust and leadership that the climate emergency demands.

The United Nations Climate Change Conference is the world’s most important annual gathering on climate action — and COP30, scheduled for 2025 in Belém, Brazil, will mark 30 years of global collaboration under the Paris Agreement framework.

At COP meetings, hundreds of nations come together to negotiate commitments to cut carbon pollution and protect vulnerable communities from the impacts of climate change. These summits have produced landmark progress before: the Kyoto Protocol at COP3 set the first binding emission targets. At the same time, the Paris Agreement at COP21 united the world around the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.

In recent years, COP conferences have spurred major pledges to end deforestation, phase down coal, and scale up climate finance for developing nations. COP30 is expected to be a defining moment — a chance to assess global progress and push countries to strengthen their commitments in the critical years ahead. These conferences are not just about “energy,” as the White House insists Donald Trump is referring to when negotiating trade deals.

COP30 is essential. The planet is rapidly pushing toward climate tipping points. Our global community is counting on every major emitter — including the U.S. — to step forward and be a part of the dialogue. By staying home, the U.S. will concede ground and undermine the collective action science demands.

We refuse to accept that our nation will stand by and watch. Our children’s futures, our coastal communities, our farmers, and every vulnerable corner of this planet depend on leaders who choose action over retreat.

Please sign the petition to tell Donald Trump: send high-level representatives to COP30. Show the world that the U.S. is ready to lead, collaborate, and act.

Thank you for all that you do,  Mitch w/ Tipping Point 
Source:  The Independent, The Hill

 

 

Dear Friends,  11-4-25

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, begins on November 10, 2025. The two-week conference will convene most of the world’s nations to accelerate action toward the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Marking 10 years since the Paris Agreement — when nearly every country pledged to limit global warming to well below 2ºC compared to pre-industrial levels — this year’s conference comes at a pivotal moment, amid growing evidence of the need for stronger and faster global climate action. 

As world leaders prepare for these critical negotiations, understanding public attitudes toward climate change is more important than ever. In the days before COP30, we’re sharing some key insights from our climate opinion research in the U.S. and around the world. . . .MORE

Support for the Paris Agreement 

In May 2025, with our partners at George Mason University, we found that 79% of U.S. registered voters support the United States’ participation in the Paris Climate Agreement, and 65% opposed President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Agreement. Support has remained very high (more than 90%) among liberal and moderate/conservative Democrats since we first asked this question in October 2017. Support has varied among Republicans over time, but support for U.S. participation has increased since 2021 among both liberal/moderate Republicans and conservative Republicans.

In our international research, we find strong support for participation in the Paris Agreement. For example, 73% of Indians favor India’s participation in the Agreement. Likewise, in a new nationally representative survey in Indonesia — which is soon to be published — 85% of Indonesians favor Indonesia’s participation in the Paris Agreement. Finally, in a survey of 31 countries and territories worldwide conducted in partnership with Data for Good at Meta, we found that support for participation in the Paris Agreement ranged from 96% in Costa Rica to 74% in the United States.

Other Top Insights

· Many people in the Global South are still not aware of climate change. Our recent survey in India finds that 27% of Indians have not heard of global warming, and in our upcoming report from Indonesia, we find that 21% of Indonesians have not heard of climate change. Nonetheless, in both countries, once given a one-sentence description, large majorities say that it is happening. These results are consistent with our research finding that many people in African and South Asian nations also know little to nothing about climate change, and that climate belief systems in these areas are looser and less dense, indicating less firmly-held opinions.

· However, people worldwide say climate change is affecting hazards like heat waves, floods, and storms and say climate change is making them worse. For example, our research in the United States, India, and many lower-income and lower-emissions countries finds that millions of people say climate change is making heat waves worse and are very worried about these extreme events. Extreme weather events, which focus the attention of the public, policymakers, and the media, are “teachable moments” that can raise public awareness and concern about climate change.

· Messages that emphasize the harms of climate change from extreme weather, and the threat to our children’s future, are effective across many countries and audiences. Although different countries experience global warming in different ways, a message experiment across 23 countries conducted in partnership with Potential Energy found that an “urgency and generational” message (i.e., that climate change and extreme weather are harming us now and will harm our children in the future) had the largest positive effect of all messages tested on support for climate action. Additionally, we found that all tested messages had positive effects, with no messages producing polarizing or backfire effects.

· Majorities in many countries are Alarmed about climate change, especially in Latin America. Our prior research has identified six distinct audiences within the U.S. public — the Alarmed, Concerned, Cautious, Disengaged, Doubtful, and Dismissive — based on their beliefs and attitudes about climate change. Applying this analysis to our international survey of more than 100 countries and territories worldwide, we find that half or more respondents in thirty-one areas are Alarmed, and the areas with the largest percentage of Alarmed are Puerto Rico (70%), El Salvador (67%), Costa Rica (65%), Chile (64%), and Panama (64%). Additionally, majorities are Alarmed in five of the top 15 emitters — Mexico (62%), India (58%), Brazil (57%), Türkiye (53%), and South Korea (52%). 

· The 2024 U.S. election was not a referendum on climate change — Americans’ understanding that global warming is happening and a serious problem, and their support for climate action, did not change before, during, or after the election. As of May 2025, the number of Americans who think global warming is happening outnumber those who think it is not by a ratio of more than 4 to 1 (69% versus 15%), and 65% are worried about it. Majorities of registered voters support a range of policies to reduce carbon pollution and promote clean energy. And majorities of registered voters want corporations and industry, government, and citizens to do more to address global warming.

Additional Resources from Our Research

For more details about the resources below, YPCCC’s own Cynthia Norrie provides a detailed overview on YouTube.

· Mapping and factsheet tools: Our Yale Climate Opinion Maps allow users to explore geographic variation in public opinion within countries. In addition to our maps in the United States, we have recently released Climate Opinion Maps for the United Kingdom, Ireland, and India. Additionally, our interactive factsheet tools allow users to generate customized summaries of results by location in the United States and India, and our global factsheet tool allows users to explore key results from more than 100 individual countries and territories worldwide.

· Reports from our nationally representative surveys: See full results from our latest nationally representative surveys in India, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and the United States, with a new report on Indonesia coming later this month. 

· Recent peer-reviewed publications:

o   Understanding the policy features that affect Indians’ support for India’s 2070 net-zero goal: An experiment found that Indians more strongly support India’s 2070 net-zero goal when it includes a job guarantee program for Indians who lose their job in a coal-fired power plant, policies to mitigate pollution, investment or redistribution of funds collected via coal taxes, and adaptation policies to protect the most vulnerable Indians and critical infrastructure.

o   Gender, Development, and Recognition of Anthropogenic Climate Change: Women in less developed countries are less likely than men to recognize climate change as human-caused, with educational disparities and limited access to information driving this gender gap in climate science understanding. However, as countries advance economically and democratically, these gender differences narrow significantly.

o   The impacts of climate activism: A review and synthesis of 50 research articles finds strong evidence that climate activism influences public opinion and media coverage worldwide, although the specific relationship depends on the kind of actions taken and the way the media covers the events. 

o   Chinese Public Awareness, Support, and Confidence in China’s Carbon Neutrality Goal: A 2022 survey of 4,162 people across China shows high awareness, support, and confidence in achieving China’s carbon neutrality goal. Responses differ somewhat by gender, age, location, education, income, occupation, and health, but support is high across all groups.

YPCCC Partnership Resources

The YPCCC Partnerships Program provides strategic communication consulting and other resources to help climate communicators around the world. To learn more, visit our partnerships hub.

 

 

Further Reading from Yale Climate Connections

· Two international courts just issued major climate rulings. Here’s what that means. 

· The climate needs a chorus: Teenagers from around the world speak up 

· Interview: Ani Dasgupta talked to 100 climate experts. He came away optimistic.

· China pulls ahead in the renewable race

· The planet had 58 billion-dollar weather disasters in 2024, the second-highest on record 

· Climate change is worsening diabetes worldwide

· Climate change is accelerating, scientists find in ‘grim’ report 

· En Español: Lo qué significa el abandono del Acuerdo de París (What the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement means)

Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D.
JoshAni-TomKat Professor of Climate Communication
Director, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
Yale School of the Environment
(203) 432-4865
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyleiserowitz/
Bluesky: @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social
climatecommunication.yale.edu
yaleclimateconnections.org

 

 

Carly Brownell.   “Get a behind-the-scenes look at COP30 in Brazil.”  350.org.  
Hi Dick,

Right now, a team of 350.org climate campaigners are in Brazil for COP30, this year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference.   These summits are the biggest opportunity of the year for national governments to come together to negotiate global climate policy and strategy – and I’d like to invite you to join us for a timely webinar with 350.org leaders as they offer behind-the-scenes insights into what’s happening at COP30, why it’s so important, and how it will shape our work ahead.

Will we see you there? RSVP today to join us on Tuesday, November 18th at 2pm ET/ 11am PT.

 

For the last three years, COPs have been hosted by Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Azerbaijan – countries that prioritized fossil fuel interests and fought against strong climate action. But this year, we finally have a host country that is sympathetic to our cause, and we’re ready to fully take advantage of this unique opportunity.

We have been organizing, campaigning, training grassroots activists, and building cross-regional momentum for over a year leading up to COP30. We need to make sure that global leaders know that this year has to be a turning point for our planet. And, thanks to your support, we will be there in person to hold them accountable to commit to the climate action that we all desperately need.

So Dick, will you join us? RSVP to get a behind-the-scenes look at this year’s COP30.

RSVP »

This is a unique opportunity to join a small, close-knit discussion with our staff where you can hear updates about our work and ask them your questions directly. We hope to see you there!   Please don’t hesitate to email me or call me at +1-856-335-7928 if you have any questions, or need any special accommodations. I am always happy to help!

“This is serious .” katrina Riley - 350.org.  1-15-25 

The planet just crossed its first climate tipping point. Coral reefs are now in irreversible decline due to ocean warming and acidification caused by climate change.    Without rapid climate action, experts warn that we’re on the brink of hitting other tipping points too, including the devastation of the Amazon rainforest, the collapse of vital ocean currents, and the loss of ice sheets.^{1 . . .}

The unfortunate fact is, world leaders are failing to act fast enough to avoid climate catastrophe. And some, including Donald Trump, are more focused on attacking climate science and ripping up all our climate progress to date.

That’s why COP30 — the world’s biggest climate talks — is an opportunity we can’t afford to miss, Dick. In less than a month, decision-makers will meet in Belém, Brazil, to shape the course of climate action for years to come. 350.org and our partners are demanding COP30 deliver:

· A rapid phaseout of fossil fuels, with no new oil, gas, or coal projects.

· Reparations from wealthy countries to communities on the frontlines of climate loss and damage.

· Indigenous, traditional, and frontline leadership at COP. . . .

This year’s COP couldn’t be held in a more significant place. Belém is known as the gateway to the Amazon — and climate change and deforestation are pushing the Amazon ecosystem to the point of no return.

Now that we’ve passed the first tipping point — the collapse of coral reefs — we’re hurtling toward the next: the dieback of the Amazon, which is a critical carbon sink and will do devastating harm to the 100 million people who depend on the forest.² We can’t let that happen.

I realize it can be hard to feel hope these days, but we must remember: we still have the power to avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis. The planet and its people are counting on us to fight, and we are.

So Dick, can you please chip in today? When you do, you’ll be helping us take the climate fight to COP30 and beyond.

Donate

Katrina Riley for 350.org
Sources:   1 - The Guardian   2 - Global Tipping Points Report 2025

Vijay Prashad.  “Please Ensure That the Planet Does Not Burn.” The Twenty-Third Newsletter (2025).

Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Reading documents from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) makes me morose. Everything looks terrible. This is largely due to the social processes set in motion by capitalism, including the harsh use of nature and the reliance on carbon-based fuels. For example: 1.     One million of the estimated eight million species of plants and animals on the planet are threatened with extinction. 2.     The main threat to a majority of species at risk of extinction is biodiversity loss caused by the capitalist agribusiness system of food production. 3.     Agricultural production – currently accounting for more than 30% of the world’s habitable land surface – is responsible for 86% of projected losses in terrestrial biodiversity because of land conversion, pollution, and soil degradation. These are three out of hundreds of points that could be made from as many scientific documents. It is important to emphasise the fact that environmental degradation has not been caused by humans in general, but by a certain system of organising society which we call capitalism. The problem with the term Anthropocene (which began to be used first by scientists, then by social scientists) is that it implies that humans – as an undifferentiated whole – have created the ecological crisis we are facing. This subtly downplays the role of the capitalist system and its accompanying class and national divides. However, data shows that humanity is using the equivalent of about 1.7 Earths to sustain our current consumption levels. In other words, we are consuming natural resources 75% times faster than nature can regenerate them each year. Unless we find another habitable planet, there is no arithmetic way to solve the problem. This is not a matter of the climate alone, but also of the environmental stress we have placed on the Earth (such as through deforestation, overfishing, overuse of fresh water, and soil degradation). If we break this undifferentiated concept of humanity down by country, clear divisions emerge. If everyone lived like an average person in the United States, then we would need five Earths. If everyone lived like an average person in the European Union, we would need three Earths. If everyone lived like an Indian, we would need 0.8 Earths. If everyone lived like a person from Yemen, we would need 0.3 Earths. An undifferentiated concept of humanity disguises the great differences across the world and suppresses the need of some peoples – such as in Yemen – to increase their consumption in order to have a dignified life. The concept of the Anthropocene masks more than it reveals. In a few months, private jets will land in Belém, Brazil, for COP30. Situated at the estuary of the Amazon River, Belém is an ideal location for the thirtieth year of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Over the past quarter century, the Amazon region has suffered from terrible deforestation, with the Brazilian Amazon alone experiencing total forest loss of 264,000 square kilometres from 2000 to 2023 – equivalent to the combined area of New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s intensive programme of conservation has made considerable advances in reversing this trend, but it needs to go further. Holding COP30 in Belém will be a strong message not only to save the Amazon but to highlight the future of the planet and of humanity. Our team in Brazil is currently working on a series of publications on the capitalist crisis of climate and the environment to be distributed at COP30. It is already clear from our analysis that there is no solution to be found in ‘green capitalism’; as Jason Hickel wrote in one of our Pan African newsletters, it is capitalism itself that is the problem we face. Below, please find some preliminary demands that go beyond the façade of green capitalism. 1. Climate and environmental discussions must be democratised. There is no room for closed-door meetings financed by corporations that have a vested interest in environmental and climate destruction. For instance, COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, was partly funded by oil companies such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, Octopus Energy, the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and TotalEnergies as well as the US Chamber of Commerce and the World Economic Forum (itself partly funded by the US government). He who pays the piper calls the tune, an adage that is not meaningless when it comes to money and power. Such a UN conference must be funded by governments and transparent about the conversations taking place in all meetings. 2. The world’s governments must strengthen their own agreements and treaty obligations. It is important to note that due to the pressure from the US and EU, none of the major climate agreements adopted strong language for compensation, or what is known as ‘loss and damage’ (i.e., climate reparations). Contributions to the loss and damage fund are voluntary, as reflected by a number of processes and treaties from the 1992 UNFCCC to the 2013 Warsaw International Mechanism, 2015 Paris Agreement, 2021 Glasgow Climate Pact, and the 2022 Loss and Damage Fund agreement. 3. There must be a fair energy transition plan that is democratically shaped. Such a plan must include ending governments subsidies for private carbon-based fuel companies. Instead those funds must be used to promote a new energy matrix and protect communities from the adverse impact of the climate and environmental catastrophe. 4. The global economy must be reshaped through agrarian reform. Such a reform must emphasise a science-based and democratic form of agriculture that protects the soil, water, and air. Governments must carry out studies to assess what it means to restructure agriculture in order to address the climate and environmental catastrophe. We need new forms of agroclimatic mapping and data to help us understand how to harness local communities’ knowledge to protect the natural ecosystem while finding ways to sustainably use natural resources for the benefit of all. Such a mapping exercise will help us better understand how to combat deforestation and promote reforestation, how to properly harness water resources for our own consumption and energy, and how to regulate mining activities to draw resources from the earth without causing catastrophic social and environmental destruction. Can we, for instance, pledge to reach net-zero deforestation by 2027?   The photograph above is by our friend Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025), who died on 23 May. Salgado portrayed the working class and peasantry with dignity and without romanticising their exploitation. He was always in solidarity with their struggles and organisations. After the 1996 Eldorado do Carajás Massacre, which killed nineteen activists connected to the Landless Workers’ Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, or MST) in South Pará, Salgado, alongside the singer Chico Buarque and the writer José Saramago, created a book called Terra (Land), the proceeds of which went to the MST. This, alongside Salgado’s donation of some of his photographs, helped the MST build its Florestan Fernandes National School. Salgado greatly enjoyed the work of Tricontinental and would occasionally send a note of appreciation for the materials we produce. We bow our heads in respect for his great contributions to humanity.   In 1843, a man named Julio Cezar Ribeiro de Souza was born in Belém, on the other side of the Amazon from the Vale do Javari that Salgado photographed. Souza loved to watch birds fly, and it was this close observation of nature that provided him with the inspiration to invent the steerable hot air balloon, mimicking birds’ aeronautics. Perhaps we need to cultivate this ethos: nature does not need to be conquered; it must be learned from and lived through. Warmly, Vijay

 

CONNECTING WITH LAST YEAR’S COP
Tomorrow: UCS webinar on COP29 and What’s Next for International Climate Policy.    Union of Concerned Scientists.                                                          The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) invites you to a virtual discussion on the United Nations annual climate talks (COP29) held this past November. Join UCS tomorrow to learn more about efforts to highlight scientifically necessary outcomes at the COP29 climate talks, including the impact of the incoming Trump administration, which has threatened to exit the Paris Agreement—there's still time to register! 
COP29 and What's Next for International Climate Policy
Date: Tuesday, January 14
Time: 4:00–5:00 p.m. ET / 1:00–2:00 p.m. PT
UCS experts will share reflections on how the negotiations played out regarding climate science, policy, and corporate influence, and the environmental and climate justice implications.      Thank you to the Henry Kendall Society.