CLARE community champions Southern leadership at COP30
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All eyes are on Belém, Brazil as the world comes together for the United Nations Climate Conference (COP30), from 10-21 November 2025. As we mark a decade since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, COP30 will gather world leaders and country negotiators, as well as climate scientists, business leaders, youth, Indigenous Peoples, and civil society.
A wide range of critical climate issues are on the agenda at COP30, pertaining to topics being addressed through CLARE projects, including adaptation finance, Early Warning Systems, and much more.
Members of the CLARE research community will be on the ground at COP30, championing the value of research that leads to impact on the ground and demonstrating the importance of Southern leadership for enabling inclusive and sustainable climate resilience.
CLARE community events at COP30
If you are attending COP30 in person, make sure to connect with members of the CLARE research community who are involved in a range of events at the conference:
| Date and time | Location | Session title | CLARE linkages | More information |
| Nov 10, 12:30-13:30 | Blue Zone (PV-B50) | GCA Local Adaptation Champions Awards Ceremony | WELL Labs (CLARITY partner) is a finalist in the GCA’s 2025 Local Adaptation Champion Awards. Winners will be announced in this ceremony. | GCA Local Adaptation Champions Awards Ceremony & Launch of 2025 Stories of Resilience |
| Nov 11 (time TBC) | Uganda Pavilion, Blue Zone | Launch of Stories of Resilience | CLARE has contributed a chapter to the Stories of Resilience on projects addressing droughts with LLA principles, featuring insights from GRIN, PASSAGE, PALM-TREEs, BASIN, BIMA, and CLARITY | TBC |
| Nov 14, 18:30-20:00 | Side Event Room 3 | Integral Ecology and Climate Justice: Voices in the Struggle for Change | Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC, a RURBANISE partner) is co-hosting this official side-event with Boston College and the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund. | From small islands to forested highlands, this panel unites Indigenous and local voices with academic and faith perspectives, presenting locally-led struggles for resilience. |
| Nov 15, 10:30-12:00 | Bangladesh Pavilion | Side event on Internal Displacement Management | Side event co-hosted by Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU, a SUCCESS partner), with the Bangladesh Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change | This session will focus on the Template of National Strategy on Internal Displacement Management |
How CLARE research informs decision-making at COP30
The CLARE community is producing world-class research on climate adaptation and resilience that plays a role in informing negotiations and decision-making at COP30, and under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change more generally.
Several CLARE researchers are contributing to seventh assessment cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an independent body whose comprehensive assessment reports are widely recognised as the most credible sources of scientific information on climate change, which in turn inform global climate decision-making.
The ECONOGENESIS project recently contributed to the UN Environment Programme’s 2025 Adaptation Gap report, informing a vital update on the size and nature of the gap between the needs of developing countries and international finance flows, as well as providing new analysis of the potential role of the private sector. These results are highly relevant for the continued work stream of the new collective quantified goal on climate finance (NCQG) and the Baku to Belém roadmap to 1.3T, which will be discussed at COP30.
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