Monday, December 8, 2025

Down To Earth **Launch of integrated forum on Climate Change and TradeSector: Trade and commerce Purpose: To create a permanent. politically supported space for countries to address increasingly contentious intersection between trade policies and climate action**Declaration on information integrity on climate changeSector: ClimatePurpose: To uphold integrity ofpublic information, protect scientists and journalists and counter spread of false narratives undermining climate action**Launch of ocean taskforceSector: ClimatePurpose: To build on BlueNationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Challenge, which encourages countries to set ocean protection targets when updating NDCs, and integrate oceans into a global mechanism accelerating adoption of marine solutions in national climate plans**Belém 4x Pledge on Sustainable FuelsSector: EnergyPurpose: To provide politicalsupport and promote international cooperation to increase at least fourfold the use of sustainable fuels by 2035, from 2024 levels, through implementation of policies**Resilient Agriculture Investment for net-Zero land degradation acceleratorSector: AgriculturePurpose: To restore degradedfarmland and mobilise finance. It is designed to help governments map degraded land, identify viable restoration projects and build financing tools for private capital.*****Belém Health Action PlanSector: HealthPurpose: World's first international climate adaptation framework dedicated entirely to health. The plan provides a roadmap for countries to confront escalating climate-related health threats, from heatwaves and vector-borne diseases to disruption of food and water systems.**Belém Declaration on Hunger, Poverty, and Human-Centered Climate ActionSector: DevelopmentPurpose: To call for a pivotal shift in how the international community addresses the climate crisis, recognising that, while climate change affects everyone, its devastating impacts fall disproportionately on the world's poorest communities.**Declaration for a Global Transport EffortSector: MobilityPurpose: To align the transport sector, the second-largest emitting sector, with the 1.5°C goal. The declaration calls for a global transport effort to achieve by 2035, a 25% drop in overall energy demand from transport, and shift one-third of transport energy to sustainable biofuels and renewable sources, with differentiated pathways**Tropical Forest Forever FacilitySector: BiodiversityPurpose: To provide long-term, self-financing support for tropical forest conservation. It was launched with US $5.5 billion in commitments, with a long-term goal of raising $125 billion. At least 20% of all payments will flow directly to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.*******Transport decarbonization in India, Mexico and EuropeSector: MobilityPurpose: India will deploy 15,000 zero-emission trucks, 1,500 electric vehicle charging Infrastructure units, and 78 MW renewable energy supply capacity by 2030; Mexico will deploy over 17,000 zero-emission vehicles by 2030; and Europe will deliver a European transport decarbonisation action strategy**Plan to Accelerate Minerals for the Transition and CircularitySector: EnergyPurpose: To overcome primary challenges to the clean energytransition: improving supply chain data quality, coordinating to expand electricity grids, embedding circularity and resilience into supply chains, and enabling developing economies to move up the clean power value chain through investment and skills partnerships.**Farmers' Initiative for Resilient and Sustainable TransformationsSector: AgriculturePurpose: To reduce methaneand nitrous oxide emissions from the agriculture sector, two potent greenhouse gases that together account for 40% of human-emitted methane and 75% of nitrous oxide.**Belém Gender Action PlanSector: DevelopmentPurpose: To ensure women and girls are placed at centre of climate policies with new provisions on health, violence and protection for women environmental defenders