Trees, targets and trillions: What's on the agenda at COP30?

Partial view of one of the entrances at the City Park of the COP30, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil, taken on November 3, 2025. [AFP]

This year's United Nations climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the environmentally vulnerable Amazon. But what is actually on the agenda?

The marathon negotiations gather nearly every country to confront a challenge that affects them all but unlike recent editions, this "COP" has no single theme or objective.