Brasília – The June Climate Meetings (SB 62) began on Monday (16) at the World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB) in Germany. The meeting, which runs until the 26th, is the first in-person round of the year for global climate negotiations and will determine which debates are expected to take precedence in November, at the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
The event in the city of Bonn is a moment for sharing and updating scientific and technological knowledge, as well as for advancing the building of consensus to enable climate action. Through active participation in regional and technical meetings, the Brazilian leadership—which will lead climate negotiations starting in November—has been working on the development of an implementation agenda.
According to Míriam Garcia, Climate Policy Manager at nonprofit World Resources Institute (WRI) Brazil and a member of the Brazilian delegation in Bonn, the first challenge to be faced in the multilateral environment is the rebuilding of a climate of trust.
“The conference in Baku [COP29] ended more than a day later than expected—roughly 30 hours behind schedule—marked by moments of intense tension, with some delegations walking out of the room at the last minute, and the looming possibility that we might fail to approve the NCQG, the new climate finance goal. This left a lasting mark on the multilateral process,” she recalls.
Garcia points out that the Brazilian vision for COP30 has been received by the international community as highly capable and innovative. The proposal presented by the designated COP30 president, Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, in one of the letters outlining Brazil’s vision, invited heads of delegations to a meeting aimed at rebuilding this climate of trust.
In the letter, the Brazilian delegation was also instructed to prioritize three topics: The development of indicators to measure the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), the implementation of the outcomes presented in the Global Stocktake (GST), and the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP).
“These are truly very intense two weeks, and one of Brazil’s considerations for this year is to come out of these two weeks with more advanced processes, so that at the start of COP30, some decisions are already in place, and we avoid gridlock on more difficult issues,” says Alexandre Prado, Head of Climate Change at nonprofit WWF Brazil.
According to Prado, who is also part of the Brazilian delegation in Bonn, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil has identified 48 topics to be addressed throughout the convention, with in-depth discussions unfolding into dozens of other issues related to climate action.
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Translated by Guilherme Miranda
