Published on : 11 Nov 2025, 6:14 am

A compromise on agenda setting, without the so-called “agenda fight” was brokered on the first day of the two-week 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate summit with four contentious items — including financial obligations of developed countries to the developing countries (Article 9.1) — being left out of the adopted agenda.

COP30 began in the Amazonian city of Belem in Brazil on November 10, with the United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell urging countries to cooperate rather than fight each other.

Eight new items were proposed to be added in the COP30 agenda, since the Bonn Climate Conference in June. Of these, four will be discussed during pres

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