COP30: 2025 Climate Change Conference
Iberdrola at the UN climate change conference in Belém
The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP30, will be held from 10 to 21 November 2025 in Belém, in the state of Pará, Brazil. For the first time, the world’s most important climate summit will take place in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the largest rainforest on the planet and one of its main carbon sinks. Once again, Iberdrola will take part in the COP, highlighting the need to drive electrification and the development of energy storage and electricity grids to achieve a sustainable future.
The city of Belém, in Brazil, will open its doors to the world as host of COP30 from 10 to 21 November 2025. Located at the mouth of the Amazon River and known as the main gateway to the vast Amazon region, Belém is not just a symbolic setting: it is a statement of intent. This climate summit is set to be a space for urgent dialogue, bringing together states, organisations and voices from civil society to agree on concrete commitments in response to the climate crisis.
In a year marking 20 years since the Kyoto Protocol entered into force and a decade since the signing of the Paris Agreement, COP30 underlines the need to move from words to action, to renew political will and to strengthen multilateralism as the only way to build a more sustainable future. The summit brings together representatives of civil society, businesses and governments from more than 190 countries.
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The road to COP30: goals and priorities
COP30 aims to mobilise the world under the inspiration of the mutirão (motirõ in Tupi-Guarani), a term used by Brazil’s native indigenous peoples. This concept refers to “a community that comes together to work on a shared task, whether harvesting, building or supporting one another”, as described in his First LetterExternal link, opens in new window. to the Parties by André Corrêa do Lago, president of COP30 and secretary for Climate, Energy and Environment at Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This summit calls on the world to unite around a common cause: working together to tackle climate change.
Among the main objectives are:
Assessment of national commitments
Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – a key pillar of the Paris Agreement – are the commitments that countries submit every five years to reduce national emissions and adapt to the effects of climate change. At this COP, progress towards these goals will be assessed, and a third round of contributions will be presented, which must be more ambitious than the current ones.
Implementation of agreements adopted at previous COPs
Among these pacts, key goals include tripling installed renewable capacity, doubling energy efficiency by 2030, and increasing energy storage capacity sixfold by 2030, as well as developing the energy infrastructure needed to support this objective, particularly electricity grids.
The COP30 Action Agenda is the framework of commitments and actions by civil society, businesses and governments to accelerate climate action. It is structured around six key thematic areas:
Transition in the energy, industry and transport sectors
This involves tripling renewable energy capacity and doubling energy efficiency, accelerating zero- and low-emission technologies in hard-to-abate sectors, ensuring universal access to energy and moving towards the equitable phase-out of fossil fuels.
Sustainable management of forests, oceans and biodiversity
This entails investing in efforts to halt and reverse deforestation and forest degradation, and promoting initiatives to protect and restore ecosystems, in particular the oceans.
Transformation of agriculture and food systems
This focuses on restoring degraded land, promoting sustainable agriculture, building resilient and sustainable food systems, and ensuring equitable access to adequate nutrition for all.
Building resilience in cities, infrastructure and water
This requires strengthening key areas such as multilevel governance, sustainable and resilient buildings, resilient urban development, mobility and infrastructure, as well as the management of water and solid waste.
Promoting human and social development
Through the promotion of resilient healthcare services; the reduction of climate change impacts on hunger and poverty eradication; education and job creation; and the protection of culture and cultural heritage.
Catalysts and accelerators, including finance, technology and capacity-building
This cross-cutting area applies to all the others. It highlights the importance of driving climate and sustainable finance, harmonising carbon markets and accounting standards, reducing non-CO2 gases, fostering climate innovation and strengthening governance.
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COP29, the predecessor
This edition follows COP29, held in 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan, where key agreements were reached, including a New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG) to support developing countries and a pact on the rules for carbon credit transaction and project markets, among others.
The Iberdrola Group took part in COP29 in line with our commitment to a sustainable energy model that creates opportunities. Through our participation in more than 20 events, we emphasised the need to develop the infrastructure required to address the potential consequences of climate change, with the promotion of energy storage and the expansion of electricity grids as key priorities.