Brazil Issues Plea for Countries to Submit Climate Plans Before Cop30

Brazil has issued an urgent call for all countries to come forward with strengthened national plans on the climate, in a last-ditch attempt to meet a key September deadline.

- Fiona Harvey

Only 28 countries have so far submitted carbon-cutting proposals to the UN, with some of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases – including China and the EU – still to produce their plans.

Brazil, which will host the crunch Cop30 UN climate summit this November, yesterday issued a summons to all governments to a key meeting on 25 September, on the sidelines of the UN annual general assembly in New York.

The UN needs all national plans – known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs) – by that date to compile a "synthesis report", which will show how far off track the world is on the crucial goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C above preindustrial levels.

André Corrêa do Lago, the veteran Brazilian diplomat who will preside over Cop30, wrote to governments yesterday to urge them to submit ambitious NDCs, and warned that if they were not strong enough then further action would be needed at Cop30.