COP30 serves as a space to showcase regional leadership, amplify community-driven solutions, and strengthen cooperation across sectors and geographies. By promoting collaboration, transparency, and mutual support, the RCF contributes to building a more effective, scalable, and people-centred climate agenda—one that delivers lasting impact and leaves no one behind.

For this year, the group of Regional Climate Foundations will promote debates and meetings at COP 30 in a pavilion at the Blue Zone, where we want to have discussions involving primarily these themes:

• Belém+10: Although it is important to reflect on the progress made and the challenges that remain since the Paris Agreement, COP30 is expected to present a vision for the next 10 years. To make this happen, it’s essential to support spaces for transparent and innovative dialogue on the necessary evolution of the Paris Agreement (i.e., implementation of NDCs and the first GST, rebuilding trust, and guaranteeing accountability) and international climate governance (proposal of new spaces and improvement of existing ones), pivoting multilateralism to an era of implementation.
• Country Platforms: are critical enablers for implementing climate and development strategies by fostering coordination, financing, and policy alignment. Country platforms are voluntary, government-led coordination mechanisms designed to foster collaboration between government and development partners to solve complex political, social and/or economic challenges based on a shared strategic vision and priorities. The aim is to mobilise international partnerships and finance for each country’s adaptation and mitigation priorities in line with its nationally determined contribution (NDC) and development goals. To effectively integrate Country Platforms into national frameworks, decision-makers should engage in strategic, multi-stakeholder conversations that address governance, financing, and implementation.
• Climate Finance: it’s important to facilitate discussions and consultations and providing technical inputs to the Baku-Belém Roadmap to 1.3 T. More than this, it needs to improve transparency and credibility for the Climate Finance Roadmap (how it will be done, how the resources will reach the end, who the beneficiaries will be, what is the quality of these resources).
• Nature and Climate: Coordinating efforts from civil society, the private sector, and governments to unlock finance for Nature-Based Solutions initiatives, promote nature as a key solution to combat climate change, support Indigenous peoples and local communities, and encourage adaptation. Promoting dialogues about innovative proposals, such as the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) and the nature component of Country Platforms.
• Action Agenda and plans: Beyond announcements, we expect concrete action plans led not only by national governments but also by subnational leadership, the private sector, and the finance sector. Implementation plans for these initiatives are essential, and they also want to shed light on the agenda of Indigenous peoples, quilombolas, and traditional communities on the same scale as the private sector.
• Social mobilization for a sense of urgency and opportunity: Reinforce the role of science and support coordinated civil society actions in the run-up to COP30 with messages that connect urgency, ambition, and implementation. Also, culture was chosen by the presidency of COP30 as a platform to engage different stakeholders.
• Just Energy Transition: The just energy transition is not only a critical pathway to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing climate change – it is also one of the greatest opportunities of our time. Done right, it can create good jobs, strengthen communities, and build a healthier, more resilient future for millions across the world. This transformation must also be inclusive and equitable, ensuring that workers and communities historically reliant on fossil fuels are not left behind. Through international cooperation, technology transfer, and targeted financial support, the energy transition can help deliver social and environmental equity on a global scale. Faster renewable energy deployment globally is a key pathway to contribute to climate mitigation and achieve carbon neutrality. Positioning energy transition away from fossil fuels is a solution to address the energy security concerns of developing economies with rich renewable energy potentials. Decentralised renewable energy solutions also contribute to making energy supply more resilient to the impacts of climate change. It requires collaboration among governments, NGOs, enterprises, and investors on creating an enabling environment, promoting technology transfer, facilitating investment and financing, and bringing the green benefits to all countries and regions.
• Green trade for catalysing industrial decarbonisation: can serve as a strategic pathway to promote industrial decarbonisation by enabling the exchange of low-carbon technologies, best practices in developing supportive policies and regulations, and sustainable industrial processes. Discussing social considerations (i.e. job creation, innovation and the fair distribution of costs and benefits) and establishing effective mechanisms for technology transfer from developed nations is crucial to support green growth in developing countries. These mechanisms may include financial incentives, capacity-building initiatives, intellectual property sharing, and collaborative research and development. Green trade can also enhance economic competitiveness since international corporations with a net zero commitment are expected to decarbonise their supply chain emissions under their scope. By leveraging green trade and international cooperation, countries can accelerate the adoption of cleaner industrial technologies, reduce emissions, and foster sustainable economic development.
• Adaptation: prominently features in both the negotiation process and the COP30 Presidential Action Plans. International public adaptation finance flows to developing countries increased from US$22 billion in 2021 to US$28 billion in 2022: the largest absolute and relative year-on-year increase since the Paris Agreement. This reflects progress towards the Glasgow Climate Pact, which urged developed nations to at least double adaptation finance to developing countries from US$19 billion (2019 levels) by 2025. However, even achieving the Glasgow Climate Pact goal would only reduce the adaptation finance gap, which is estimated at US$187-359 billion per year, by about 5%. Equitable measures and finance are urgently needed to facilitate adaptation for the implementation of NDC 3.0. The RCF can provide a space for multi-stakeholders from different regions (Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America) to deliberate on solutions to closing the gap and exchange case studies.
• Addressing heat stress for resilient development: can serve as a strategic priority to safeguard public health, enhance labour productivity, and ensure sustainable economic growth in a warming world. By mainstreaming heat risk management into national development plans and fostering international knowledge exchange, countries can build resilience, protect livelihoods, and advance inclusive climate adaptation.
• Promoting green investment through global collaboration: Global green investment and trade are reshaping growth patterns by fostering cooperation in clean energy and sustainable supply chains. Despite strong climate ambitions, many developing countries face systemic barriers -such as limited access to capital, lack of risk-mitigation tools, and weak regulatory frameworks- while also shouldering the social and environmental costs of mineral extraction. Advancing South-North-South collaboration is critical to closing climate finance gaps, promoting inclusive governance, and facilitating joint investment, capacity-building, and technology transfer. This equitable approach strengthens both national transitions and global climate resilience.