Delegates at the UN Cop 30 climate summit are discussing a text that would address the four items left off the summit's main agenda, Cop 30 president Andre Correa do Lago said.
The possibility was presented right after the first plenary on Monday, he told reporters today. The text would include themes key to Cop 30, such as adaptation and the just energy transition, he said.
"We are going to try our hardest to bring forward the results of Cop 30 as much as possible in two packages", he said. The first would deal with the items left off the agenda — unilateral trade measures, climate finance and countries' climate plans and emissions reporting. This would probably come by "the middle of the week", while the second will be left for Friday, he added. Negotiators were "impressively behind" the idea, he said.
The four items are often points of contention among the nearly 200 countries attending Cop 30.
Cop 30 chief executive Ana Toni made it clear that the text on the four 'off-agenda' items will not be a cover decision. "Usually, cover decisions encompass several topics," she said. "In this case, it would be a decision related to those four topics... only."
A first draft is expected on Tuesday, she said.
Delegations have reached the second week of the climate talks in Belem, Brazil. Discussions are moving from the technical stage to the political phase, as countries' ministers join the conference.
