At COP30, issues like the 1.5°C goal and climate finance are urgent topics, with small island states advocating for action amid rising temperatures.

Though not part of the official UN Climate Meeting (COP30) Summit agenda, certain themes may linger on for the next two weeks, and eventually find themselves in the cover decision from Brazil’s Belem.

These include the status of the Paris Agreement’s lower limit – the 1.5 degrees Celsius (°C) goal, article 9.1 – which mandates that developed countries provide financial resources to assist developing countries, biannual transparency reports on what climate action has been taken and the contentious issue of unilateral trade measures.

This is the first time the UN has acknowledged that an overshoot of the 1.5 °C goal is now inevitable. But for

See Full Page