The UN Cop 30 climate summit's presidency has announced that 423 out of 722 initiatives filed since 2014 accepted its invitation to actively join the action agenda in Belem, Brazil.
These initiatives must secure transparency of results and report effectiveness. After the summit in November, the presidency expects that Cop initiatives will triple, Cop 30 high-level champion Dan Ioschpe said on 14 October during pre-Cop in Brazil's capital, Brasilia.
The action agenda looks to mobilize voluntary climate action from civil society, businesses, investors and governments to intensify emission reductions, climate adaptation and the transition to sustainable economies, as set out in the Paris Agreement. Cop 30's action agenda is six-pronged and lays out 30 objectives, including the transition away from fossil fuels.
Brazil has integrated Cop's action agenda into the summit negotiations through a mechanism known as Global Stocktake to track global targets and objectives under the Paris Agreement's Global Balance tool. Results of initiatives have been reported since Cop 20, in Peru, but Brazil promoted a fourfold increase to 137 updates ahead of Cop 30, according to action agenda coordinator Bruna Cerqueira.
