Aruna Chandrasekhar
@arunacsekhar.bsky.social
Climate journalist, Carbon Brief. Interested in energy, climate, land, food, politics, rights, critters, culture. Recovering Twitter junkie. “Sekhar” as in “shaker”.📍Mumbai, India. Views, jokes = own.
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COP30: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Belém - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief breaks down the main COP30 outcomes on food, forests, land and nature.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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At COP30, while public statements talked up "high quality" carbon markets, concerted efforts were made in negotiations to water down the already inadequate Article 6 rule book.
Our conclusion: countries must fix Article 6 and not use carbon credits.
carbonmarketwatch.org/2025/11/22/c...
Our conclusion: countries must fix Article 6 and not use carbon credits.
carbonmarketwatch.org/2025/11/22/c...
November 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
At COP30, while public statements talked up "high quality" carbon markets, concerted efforts were made in negotiations to water down the already inadequate Article 6 rule book.
Our conclusion: countries must fix Article 6 and not use carbon credits.
carbonmarketwatch.org/2025/11/22/c...
Our conclusion: countries must fix Article 6 and not use carbon credits.
carbonmarketwatch.org/2025/11/22/c...
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NEW – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém
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#COP30
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November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
NEW – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém
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#COP30
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At #COP30, Panama, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, & Ecuador denounced the gavelling of the decision on the Global Goal on Adaptation despite their delegations having raised their flags and signalling points of order
They lamented that the indicators erase 2 years of work conducted with expert input
They lamented that the indicators erase 2 years of work conducted with expert input
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
At #COP30, Panama, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, & Ecuador denounced the gavelling of the decision on the Global Goal on Adaptation despite their delegations having raised their flags and signalling points of order
They lamented that the indicators erase 2 years of work conducted with expert input
They lamented that the indicators erase 2 years of work conducted with expert input
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A summary of WTO jurisprudence on "arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination" and "disguised restriction" that may inform how this text is interpreted: www.wto.org/english/trat...
WTO | Trade and environment
www.wto.org
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
A summary of WTO jurisprudence on "arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination" and "disguised restriction" that may inform how this text is interpreted: www.wto.org/english/trat...
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Intervention by 🇮🇳 on behalf of 🇧🇷🇿🇦🇮🇳🇨🇳 BASIC, following the suspension of the closing plenary at COP30
Says intervening countries hold "extreme positions"
Adds: "It is in our interest to make sure climate multilateralism succeeds"
Says intervening countries hold "extreme positions"
Adds: "It is in our interest to make sure climate multilateralism succeeds"
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Intervention by 🇮🇳 on behalf of 🇧🇷🇿🇦🇮🇳🇨🇳 BASIC, following the suspension of the closing plenary at COP30
Says intervening countries hold "extreme positions"
Adds: "It is in our interest to make sure climate multilateralism succeeds"
Says intervening countries hold "extreme positions"
Adds: "It is in our interest to make sure climate multilateralism succeeds"
While we wait for the plenary to resume after parties raised points of order: it's official, folks.
Trade measures are on the COP cover that was adopted. Instead of being told to "go to the WTO", the WTO will come to the UNFCCC to dialogue with countries affected by carbon taxes + export bans.
Trade measures are on the COP cover that was adopted. Instead of being told to "go to the WTO", the WTO will come to the UNFCCC to dialogue with countries affected by carbon taxes + export bans.
November 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
While we wait for the plenary to resume after parties raised points of order: it's official, folks.
Trade measures are on the COP cover that was adopted. Instead of being told to "go to the WTO", the WTO will come to the UNFCCC to dialogue with countries affected by carbon taxes + export bans.
Trade measures are on the COP cover that was adopted. Instead of being told to "go to the WTO", the WTO will come to the UNFCCC to dialogue with countries affected by carbon taxes + export bans.
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COP30's key text, the global mutirão, just adopted here in Belém 🇧🇷
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
COP30's key text, the global mutirão, just adopted here in Belém 🇧🇷
Shots fired #COP30 plenary
PANAMA: "Mr. President, Panama is extremely disappointed. We were promised a transparent process. That is not what we're seeing. I raise my flag and you ignore it. I raise a point of order, and you ignore it. I sustain it, and it can be ignored."
PANAMA: "Mr. President, Panama is extremely disappointed. We were promised a transparent process. That is not what we're seeing. I raise my flag and you ignore it. I raise a point of order, and you ignore it. I sustain it, and it can be ignored."
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Shots fired #COP30 plenary
PANAMA: "Mr. President, Panama is extremely disappointed. We were promised a transparent process. That is not what we're seeing. I raise my flag and you ignore it. I raise a point of order, and you ignore it. I sustain it, and it can be ignored."
PANAMA: "Mr. President, Panama is extremely disappointed. We were promised a transparent process. That is not what we're seeing. I raise my flag and you ignore it. I raise a point of order, and you ignore it. I sustain it, and it can be ignored."
🆕 UNILATERAL TRADE MEASURES #COP30
After fighting for inclusion on COP agendas in Dubai, Baku and Belém, climate-related trade measures are on the verge of having their big moment on the cover of COP30 climate talks.
After fighting for inclusion on COP agendas in Dubai, Baku and Belém, climate-related trade measures are on the verge of having their big moment on the cover of COP30 climate talks.
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🆕 UNILATERAL TRADE MEASURES #COP30
After fighting for inclusion on COP agendas in Dubai, Baku and Belém, climate-related trade measures are on the verge of having their big moment on the cover of COP30 climate talks.
After fighting for inclusion on COP agendas in Dubai, Baku and Belém, climate-related trade measures are on the verge of having their big moment on the cover of COP30 climate talks.
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++CLIMATE FINANCE! IN THE MUTIRÃO++
Article 9.1 – referring to finance provided by developed countries
Key issue for LMDCs, Arab Group, who initially called for a 3-year work programme.
Text has a 2-year programme on all climate finance from developed countries, including e.g. private finance.
Article 9.1 – referring to finance provided by developed countries
Key issue for LMDCs, Arab Group, who initially called for a 3-year work programme.
Text has a 2-year programme on all climate finance from developed countries, including e.g. private finance.
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
++CLIMATE FINANCE! IN THE MUTIRÃO++
Article 9.1 – referring to finance provided by developed countries
Key issue for LMDCs, Arab Group, who initially called for a 3-year work programme.
Text has a 2-year programme on all climate finance from developed countries, including e.g. private finance.
Article 9.1 – referring to finance provided by developed countries
Key issue for LMDCs, Arab Group, who initially called for a 3-year work programme.
Text has a 2-year programme on all climate finance from developed countries, including e.g. private finance.
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On the key "tripling adaptation finance" pledge – the target is now for 2035, not 2030.
Also, as Aruna notes – from what levels?
The previous text specified that this was from a 2025 baseline, but that has been deleted... Now this is possibly open to interpretation?
bsky.app/profile/arun...
Also, as Aruna notes – from what levels?
The previous text specified that this was from a 2025 baseline, but that has been deleted... Now this is possibly open to interpretation?
bsky.app/profile/arun...
On "calls for efforts to at least" 3x adaptation finance/2035:
- "calls for efforts" is weak
- from what levels?
- "in the context of" the new climate finance goal, goalpost for tripling just got shifted to 2035 from 2030
- *para 16 NCQG: increase public resources to UN funds, 3x outflows
- "calls for efforts" is weak
- from what levels?
- "in the context of" the new climate finance goal, goalpost for tripling just got shifted to 2035 from 2030
- *para 16 NCQG: increase public resources to UN funds, 3x outflows
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
On the key "tripling adaptation finance" pledge – the target is now for 2035, not 2030.
Also, as Aruna notes – from what levels?
The previous text specified that this was from a 2025 baseline, but that has been deleted... Now this is possibly open to interpretation?
bsky.app/profile/arun...
Also, as Aruna notes – from what levels?
The previous text specified that this was from a 2025 baseline, but that has been deleted... Now this is possibly open to interpretation?
bsky.app/profile/arun...
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New Global Mutirão text retains a "call for efforts" to triple adaptation finance, but pushes the deadline for this to 2035 - five years later than the previous draft and what the LDCs and other developing parties have called for
Full text: unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
Full text: unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
New Global Mutirão text retains a "call for efforts" to triple adaptation finance, but pushes the deadline for this to 2035 - five years later than the previous draft and what the LDCs and other developing parties have called for
Full text: unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
Full text: unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
TL;DR: COP30 delivers a very weak outcome on adaptation finance, at what was supposed to finally be the Adaptation COP.
Tripling goal pushed back five years. Still might be framed as a "win" by some, but far from the $120bn/yr by 2030 that least developed countries pushed for.
Tripling goal pushed back five years. Still might be framed as a "win" by some, but far from the $120bn/yr by 2030 that least developed countries pushed for.
🆕 #COP30 Global goal on adaptation text
- "takes note of" Glasgow goal to 2x adaptation finance/2025
- "calls for efforts to at least" 3x adaptation finance/2035
- "urges" developed countries to "increase trajectory of collective provision" of climate $$ for adaptation
unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
- "takes note of" Glasgow goal to 2x adaptation finance/2025
- "calls for efforts to at least" 3x adaptation finance/2035
- "urges" developed countries to "increase trajectory of collective provision" of climate $$ for adaptation
unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
November 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
TL;DR: COP30 delivers a very weak outcome on adaptation finance, at what was supposed to finally be the Adaptation COP.
Tripling goal pushed back five years. Still might be framed as a "win" by some, but far from the $120bn/yr by 2030 that least developed countries pushed for.
Tripling goal pushed back five years. Still might be framed as a "win" by some, but far from the $120bn/yr by 2030 that least developed countries pushed for.
🆕 #COP30 Global goal on adaptation text
- "takes note of" Glasgow goal to 2x adaptation finance/2025
- "calls for efforts to at least" 3x adaptation finance/2035
- "urges" developed countries to "increase trajectory of collective provision" of climate $$ for adaptation
unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
- "takes note of" Glasgow goal to 2x adaptation finance/2025
- "calls for efforts to at least" 3x adaptation finance/2035
- "urges" developed countries to "increase trajectory of collective provision" of climate $$ for adaptation
unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
November 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🆕 #COP30 Global goal on adaptation text
- "takes note of" Glasgow goal to 2x adaptation finance/2025
- "calls for efforts to at least" 3x adaptation finance/2035
- "urges" developed countries to "increase trajectory of collective provision" of climate $$ for adaptation
unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
- "takes note of" Glasgow goal to 2x adaptation finance/2025
- "calls for efforts to at least" 3x adaptation finance/2035
- "urges" developed countries to "increase trajectory of collective provision" of climate $$ for adaptation
unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
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'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
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“We cannot talk about implementation with conditionalities on means of implementation, these are obligations under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement,” underscores the African Group at #COP30
At #COP30, the Arab Group underscores that the provision of adaptation finance is a legal obligation, denounces trade-restrictive policies, and emphasizes that text targeting any sector of their economies is “off the table”
Turmoil at #COP30, with the European Union, the Independent Alliance of Latin America and the Caribbean, the Environmental Integrity Group opposing the latest version of the “Mutirão” decision, which lacks a reference to fossil fuel phaseout
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“We cannot talk about implementation with conditionalities on means of implementation, these are obligations under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement,” underscores the African Group at #COP30
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Fossil fuel roadmap is not in the text, but important to remember that it was never on COP30's agenda or formally negotiated. Even though this is "cover text".
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Fossil fuel roadmap is not in the text, but important to remember that it was never on COP30's agenda or formally negotiated. Even though this is "cover text".
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In this issue:
🌽 Agriculture negotiations at COP30 ended abruptly.
🌽More than 300 industrial ag lobbyists attended the Belém summit.
🌽 Carbon Brief explains four key food, land and nature pledges from COP30.
🌽 The EU provisionally agreed on a farming-subsidy overhaul.
🌽 Agriculture negotiations at COP30 ended abruptly.
🌽More than 300 industrial ag lobbyists attended the Belém summit.
🌽 Carbon Brief explains four key food, land and nature pledges from COP30.
🌽 The EU provisionally agreed on a farming-subsidy overhaul.
Cropped 19 November 2025: COP30 edition - Carbon Brief
The COP30 climate summit is entering its final days in Belém – and food, forests and land have all featured across the two weeks of talks.
www.carbonbrief.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
In this issue:
🌽 Agriculture negotiations at COP30 ended abruptly.
🌽More than 300 industrial ag lobbyists attended the Belém summit.
🌽 Carbon Brief explains four key food, land and nature pledges from COP30.
🌽 The EU provisionally agreed on a farming-subsidy overhaul.
🌽 Agriculture negotiations at COP30 ended abruptly.
🌽More than 300 industrial ag lobbyists attended the Belém summit.
🌽 Carbon Brief explains four key food, land and nature pledges from COP30.
🌽 The EU provisionally agreed on a farming-subsidy overhaul.
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Beyond the big COP30 issue of Article 9.1 climate finance for developing countries, the new draft cover text contains potential ways forward for the "Baku to Belem roadmap" to $1.3tn.
It is covered by one of the "workstreams" being proposed as ways to advance "roadmaps" on various finance issues.
It is covered by one of the "workstreams" being proposed as ways to advance "roadmaps" on various finance issues.
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Beyond the big COP30 issue of Article 9.1 climate finance for developing countries, the new draft cover text contains potential ways forward for the "Baku to Belem roadmap" to $1.3tn.
It is covered by one of the "workstreams" being proposed as ways to advance "roadmaps" on various finance issues.
It is covered by one of the "workstreams" being proposed as ways to advance "roadmaps" on various finance issues.
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Finally on trade measures, para 58
Opt1 take note of response measures / technical w'shops
Opt2 dialogues at Bonn meetings
Opt3 new info-sharing "platform" on trade measures
Opt4 UNSG summit on trade + annual dialogue + report
Opt1 take note of response measures / technical w'shops
Opt2 dialogues at Bonn meetings
Opt3 new info-sharing "platform" on trade measures
Opt4 UNSG summit on trade + annual dialogue + report
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Finally on trade measures, para 58
Opt1 take note of response measures / technical w'shops
Opt2 dialogues at Bonn meetings
Opt3 new info-sharing "platform" on trade measures
Opt4 UNSG summit on trade + annual dialogue + report
Opt1 take note of response measures / technical w'shops
Opt2 dialogues at Bonn meetings
Opt3 new info-sharing "platform" on trade measures
Opt4 UNSG summit on trade + annual dialogue + report
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COP30 COVER TEXT: The Brazilian presidency has published a first draft "global mutirão" text on the "big four" issues at COP30 – finance, 1.5C, trade & transparency
Options inc a "Belém roadmap to 1.5C", national FF roadmaps, tripling adaptation finance and more
NB this is only a draft!
Options inc a "Belém roadmap to 1.5C", national FF roadmaps, tripling adaptation finance and more
NB this is only a draft!
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
COP30 COVER TEXT: The Brazilian presidency has published a first draft "global mutirão" text on the "big four" issues at COP30 – finance, 1.5C, trade & transparency
Options inc a "Belém roadmap to 1.5C", national FF roadmaps, tripling adaptation finance and more
NB this is only a draft!
Options inc a "Belém roadmap to 1.5C", national FF roadmaps, tripling adaptation finance and more
NB this is only a draft!
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November 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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This time on Deutsche Welle I did not have a cat jumping up on the table behind me and proceeding to clean her nether regions. It was, consequently, a much less exciting interview.
New article on our website:
#COP30 – Prof. @lisaschipper.bsky.social emphasises the importance of adaptation and climate justice
Read more:
www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/en/news/cop3...
#COP30 – Prof. @lisaschipper.bsky.social emphasises the importance of adaptation and climate justice
Read more:
www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/en/news/cop3...
November 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This time on Deutsche Welle I did not have a cat jumping up on the table behind me and proceeding to clean her nether regions. It was, consequently, a much less exciting interview.