for Climate Change COP30 Aotearoa New Zealand contribution 30 September 2025
At the invitation of the International Environment Forum, a group gathered in Browns Bay, North Shore Auckland, on 21 September, and then further shared with others, to consult on the five questions raise in the COP30 Global Ethical Stocktake. The following is their contribution.
The thirtieth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will meet in Belim, Brazil, in November 2025.
The COP President-Designate, André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, wrote a letter on 10 March 2025 describing the Brazilian Governments objectives and proposals for COP30. Of particular interest to IEF are the following quotes from that letter.