UN climate conferences mostly exceed schedules and deadlines, and the UNFCCC COP30 in Belém, Brazil, was no different. However, unlike many such meetings held since the Paris Agreement, this conference made progress in easing some of the tension between ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ nations over climate finance, with countries agreeing to establish a two-year plan aimed at helping developing nations raise at least $1.3 trillion annually by 2035 — funding considered crucial for their climate goals in the coming decade.

In the year of the second US withdrawal from Paris, 194 countries came together and sent a message that the rest of the world is moving ahead on the understanding that climate leadership brings economic protection, with the Baku-to-Belém roadmap setting out a plan to scale up

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