Today, the COP30 Climate Summit, organised by the United Nations, gets underway in Belém, Brazil. The international summit will take place between November 10 and 21 and will bring together world leaders and negotiators from Member States, along with business leaders, young people, the scientific community, indigenous peoples and civil society to bolster countries' commitments and share solutions and best practices to push for global, collective and inclusive climate action.

Between November 10 and 21, world leaders will gather in the Brazilian city of Belem to call for greater ambition regarding the climate

A fair energy and climate transition, biodiversity conservation and territorial resilience, especially in urban areas, will be among the topics discussed. But clearly the two key issues are funding and commitments to action. 

Funding and NDCs, i.e. each country's commitments to mitigate and adapt to climate change will be discussed, in addition to the energy transition, biodiversity conservation and urban resilience 

In this regard, nationally determined contribution (NDC) reports, which are each country's commitments towards mitigating and adapting to climate change, will play a particularly relevant role at COP30. These commitments, which were set under the Paris Agreement, outline the actions that countries are taking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve resilience to the impacts of climate change, such as droughts and sea level rise. NDCs should be updated every five years with more ambitious targets, in line with the principle of maximum ambition, and this COP will pay particular attention to them. 

The Basque Country will follow the negotiations closely and will once again call for the voices of individual regions to be heard, as key actors in the energy and climate transition

As far as the Basque Country is concerned, Ihobe, the Basque Government's Public Environmental Management Company, will keep a close eye on the negotiations and will once again call for the voices of individual regions to be heard, as key actors in the energy and climate transition.