COP30
The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil
Each year, GCE’s COP team contributes to and shapes the UN climate conference by organising events and capacity-building activities, holding bilateral meetings with policymakers, and coordinating joint advocacy efforts with civil society partners.
This report provides an overview of the GCE COP30 team’s activities before, during, and after COP30, held in Belém do Pará, Brazil, from 10 to 23 November 2025. It outlines the delegation’s key engagements, strategic interventions, and advocacy efforts to ensure that youth perspectives were meaningfully reflected in COP30 discussions and outcomes.
Strategic Thematic Priorities
At GCE, we believe that the COP30 must deliver pledges towards a transition that is just, credible, transparent, inclusive and ambitious, responding to the urgency of the climate and biodiversity crises, as well as humanitarian concerns.
In response to these interconnected issues, we want COP30 to deliver on three key Strategic Thematic Priorities:
1) Just Phase-out of Fossil Fuels
2) Scale up Climate Finance for Adaptation, Loss and Damage, and Biodiversity
3) Defend Civic Space and Strengthen Inclusive Climate Governance
The reference to tripling adaptation finance falls dramatically short of real needs as it does not include obligations for developed countries, no baseline, and delivery is delayed to 2035.
Erica MartinelliCOP30 coordinator
A glimpse into our COP30 activities
