06 Nov 2025
Top investor expectations for COP30: Adaptation, NDCs and nature
Published 28 October 2025, investors lay out their key hopes, desires and expectations from COP30 in Brazil (beginning 10 November).
This article includes:
- Several investors namechecked the "Baku to Belém Roadmap" as a chance to inject "positive momentum" through an implementable plan to achieve the 1.3 trillion per year from private and public sources.
- Practical solutions for supporting and accelerating real-world decarbonisation targeting public and private finance.
- To corral new, more ambitious NDCs - "closing the gap" between emissions reductions targeted by existing NDCs and reductions required to align with a 1.5c decarbonisation pathway.
- Increased focus on adaptation, physical risk, and climate adaptation finance, moving towards robust definitions and indicators for measuring progress via the "Global goal on adaptation".