STATEMENT: COP30 Leaders’ Summit Concludes with Major Pledges for Climate, Nature and People (World Resources Institute)

The COP30 Leaders’ Summit concluded today with major announcements and pledges from world leaders, as well as political calls to action ahead of the formal negotiations beginning on November 10. New initiatives and commitments included the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, a major finance mechanism to protect forests; pledges for Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ finance and land rights; a pledge to quadruple ‘sustainable fuels’; a Call to Action on Wildfire Resilience; and the Belém Declaration on Hunger, Poverty and Human-Centered Climate Action.

STATEMENT: COP30 Leaders’ Summit Concludes with Major Pledges for Climate, Nature and People | World Resources Institute