COP30: How Brazil wants to reform the UN • Table.Briefings

André Corrêa do Lago, President-designate of the COP30 in Belém, giving a press conference at the end of the 16th Petersberg Climate Dialogue.

With Brazil, an ambitious presidency is taking over the next COP. Although there are hardly any critical formal decisions to be made, COP President-designate André Corrêa do Lago wants to achieve a „turning point“ in implementing climate targets – by reforming the system.

With its upcoming COP presidency, Brazil pushes for reforms in the UN process to better implement and explain climate policy. This includes improvements to the COP process and new meetings and formats at the COP30 in Belém. In the medium term, Brazil proposes a UN Climate Change Council at the UN General Assembly (UNGA), which is primarily tasked with driving forward the implementation of COP resolutions. In general, the upcoming COP host is much more ambitious, professional and inclusive than, for example, Azerbaijan was a year ago.

COP30: How Brazil wants to reform the UN climate process

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