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COP30: Your Guide to the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference

The Nature Conservancy · last updated

COP, standing for the Conference of the Parties, is an annual high-level meeting organized by the United Nations, and the Climate COP is organized by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). 

Climate COPs are important because they bring together delegates from nearly every country on Earth to negotiate global goals for tackling climate change, present their individual countries’ plans for contributing to those goals and report on their progress.

The climate COP meets in a different country every year to demonstrate the importance of collaboration between the world’s nations. COP30 took place in 2025 in Belém, Brazil. This follows COP29, which brought nearly 200 countries together to coordinate global climate action during November 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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