The UN Cop 30 climate summit will be a "global accelerator for implementation, not just a place for pledges", according to the conference's executive director Ana Toni.
"Structural changes" to the Cop process will help to deliver on negotiations, Toni said.
The Cop 30 presidency has focused on creating a "more collaborative, more inclusive, more representative" process, she noted. This includes "circles" of finance ministers, previous Cop presidents and groups including indigenous peoples, all providing input on how to reach climate goals.
In the lead-up to Cop 30, which is scheduled for November in Belem, Brazil, "our focus is to consolidate these contributions into concrete solutions and substantive negotiation outcomes", Toni said.
The outcomes of Cop summits should be "much more widely used by governments", said the conference's president, Andre Correa do Lago. "We have to mainstream climate."
A group of finance ministers, representing 35 countries, is discussing topics including climate finance and the reform of multilateral banks, and will provide input to the Cop 30 presidency in September. This will be one source for the so-called $1.3 trillion roadmap, which do Lago and the Cop 29 president, Mukhtar Babayev, will present at Cop 30. This plan aims to set out a route to scale up climate finance for developing countries from all sources to $1.3 trillion/year by 2035.
Do Lago is "expecting countries to submit NDCs [nationally determined contributions] before Cop", and is hopeful that sufficient NDCs — countries' climate plans — will be unveiled to gauge progress on climate action, he said.
Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres will host a summit in September focused on countries' NDCs.
Do Lago told reporters he is "very conscious of the very challenging geopolitical moment" facing this year's Cop, but emphasised the presidency wanted to strengthen multilateralism. Focus will fall on the EU and China at this year's Cop, as the US pulled out of the Paris agreement in January.
The US administration has since January been working to roll back the country's climate commitments, while its energy secretary Chris Wright last week released a 151-page "climate review" that touts the benefits of increased GHG concentrations.
"That's not what we hear from scientists… we cannot politicise science", do Lago said on the topic. "We have to listen to scientists."
