At the conclusion of COP30: What are the most prominent results and recommendations that emerged from the conference?

At the conclusion of COP 30: What are the most prominent results and recommendations that emerged from the conference?

The curtain came down on the COP30 climate conference in Belém, Brazil, as its activities, which lasted from November 10 to 21, ended, and the participating countries approved a large group of ambitious agreements and pledges to confront climate change. It called on countries not to be satisfied with these pledges and speeches, and that they must be transformed into executive steps and a tangible reality that touches people’s needs, contributes to achieving proven progress in the issue of climate adaptation, and finding funds to support it. From this standpoint, we discuss in this article the most important recommendations that came from the conference, which are: launching the Belem adaptation financing package, the Belem Health Plan, and the Investable National Implementation Initiative. The conference also intensified its efforts to support forests by launching the Tropical Forest Facility.

Belem Package, a turning point in climate finance

195 countries adopted the so-called Belem Package, which is a clear indication of humanity’s determination to unify pressing demands and turn them into action and a tangible reality in the face of climate change. The 29 resolutions that were unanimously approved included agreements on similar topics including a just transition, financing adaptation, trade, gender equality, and technology. They also aim to renew the collective commitment to accelerate action procedures, according to a climate framework more relevant to people’s daily lives. “When we leave Belém, we should not associate these moments with the end of the conference, but rather with the beginning of an entire decade of transforming the rules of the game,” said COP30 President Andre Correia de Laogo. “The spirit that was built here should not end immediately when we announce our departure from this conference, but must continue in every government meeting, board of directors, union, classroom, laboratory, and forestry community. And in every major city or coastal town.

The decisions adopted in the Belem package included the following:

• Commit to triple adaptation financing by 2035.
• Emphasizing the urgent need for developed countries to further strengthen climate financial support provided to developing countries.
• Countries adopted the Baku Climate Adaptation Roadmap, which identifies and endorses actions planned for the period from 2026 to 2028, until the next global assessment of the Paris Agreement.

COP 30 Conference, Implementation Step

These results consolidate the position of Belem as an executive conference, capable of transforming decisions into concrete actions. More than 122 countries submitted new or updated Nationally Determined Contributions, in a decisive step towards shaping a new climate economy.

Through the COP30 agenda, the global assessment has become a compass for multi-sectoral climate action, bringing together cities, companies, investors, civil society, and countries.

It also announced 120 plans aimed at accelerating solutions that achieve real, tangible changes, which include initiatives focused on energy systems, forests, oceans, and people’s daily lives.

COP 30 Conference Initiatives and Announcements

The results of the conference included many influential announcements and initiatives within the action plan, and showed how the implementation mechanism has already begun, and include the following:

• Launching the initiative to strengthen investable national implementation, with the aim of making national climate adaptation plans more investable by bringing together countries, development banks, insurance companies and private sector investors.
• This initiative also aims to launch climate adaptation projects worth a trillion dollars within three years, while attracting 20% of financing from the private sector, which is considered a structural shift from the plan design stage to implementing them flexibly and quickly on a large scale.
• The Inter-American Development Bank and the Green Climate Fund highlight a number of existing and already implemented mechanisms to advance and strengthen climate adaptation efforts, with the Gates Foundation pledging $1.4 billion to support small farmers.
• The launch of the Belem Health Plan, which received the support of more than 30 countries and 50 organizations, with the aim of raising the level of health to be a basic priority in climate action, and strengthening it with funding amounting to $300 million provided by the Alliance of Climate and Health Funders. The plan will also contribute to strengthening health systems that are able to withstand climate change, and support hospitals, health surveillance systems, and disease prevention, especially in countries of the Global South.
• 10 countries announced their support for the “Flexible Agricultural Investment Accelerator”; In order to combat land degradation (RAIZ), a new initiative aimed at reclaiming degraded agricultural land and attracting private capital.

Building on the Green Path and Eco Invest programs, which have raised nearly $6 billion to reclaim up to 7.4 million acres, the initiative will help countries find integrated financing solutions to scale up reclamation and protect forests.

COP30 Conference on Forest Support

The COP30 conference also marked a historic turning point in nature-based climate action, as it helped launch the Tropical Forests in Forever Facility (TFFF), which constitutes an unprecedented mechanism for providing results-based payments to countries containing tropical forests for their efforts to preserve those forests.

The facility has succeeded in raising more than $6.7 billion in its first phase, with support from 63 countries, establishing a stable capital base for forest protection.

Other nature-based announcements within the action plan included expanding support for the United for Our Forests (UNFF) initiative, strengthening the leadership of regional communities and indigenous peoples in protecting ecosystems, legal tenure of land, and promoting sustainable development, as well as launching large-scale initiatives in agroecology and ecological restoration to expand biodiversity-positive climate solutions.

Seventeen countries have joined the Blue NDC challenge, pledging to integrate ocean-related climate solutions into their national plans. Together, these efforts show that protecting and restoring nature - from forests to coasts and marine bodies - is an essential foundation for climate ambitions and practical policy implementation.

Aligning capital with climate goals

COP30 also represented an important step in reshaping the international financial structure to match the severity and scale of the current climate crisis. The parties endorsed the Baku to Belem Roadmap, a framework developed in collaboration with the COP29 presidency to increase climate finance flows by at least $1.3 trillion annually by 2035, with a strong focus on joint public-private mobilization and improved access to developing countries.

New commitments came under the Mutirão Decision to accelerate reforms in multilateral development banks, strengthen the role of concessional and grant-based financing, and expand innovative tools such as guarantees, blended finance, and debt-for-climate swaps.

COP30 also launched the Global Climate Finance Accountability Framework to enhance transparency, credibility and confidence in climate finance delivery, reflecting a broader shift from fragmented pledges to coherent, fair and measurable financial support.

Applying climate justice in the lives of communities

COP 30 has achieved its ambitions to bring the global climate system closer to people's daily lives; The unprecedented participation of more than 900 indigenous participants in the Blue ZoneBlue Zone (the official UNFCCC negotiating space), the peaceful power of the Belém Climate March, and the launch of the Global Ethical Assessment - reflected the close relationship between climate justice, dignity, and intergenerational solidarity.

As for the “Belém Climate March” - specifically - it has become a historic march in the conferences of the parties in general. Tens of thousands participated in it peacefully to demand climate justice among countries, and it was considered part of the Mutirão Decision global initiative.

The issue of human development has also become the cornerstone of the climate action plan, as the thematic axes on “promoting human and social development” have constituted a top priority, as important files have been presented such as:

• Climate Education
• Job creation
• Enhancing health resilience
• Social Protection
• Achieving gender equality

Looking to the future, the COP30 Presidency affirmed its commitment to maintaining the momentum of the Belem Conference towards future achievements, by focusing on enhancing compatibility between the results of the negotiations and realistic implementation, and deepening cooperation based on the spirit of inclusiveness.The Earth Guards Foundation also stresses the necessity of following up on those treaties and agreements announced during the COP30 conference, and pushing to transform them into tangible reality and implementation steps that approach people’s daily lives, and contribute directly to promoting sustainable development in its three dimensions and reducing the effects of climate change, and its increasing seriousness, which has become a threat to countries of the world. All.