GAIN AT
COP30
📍Belém, Brazil
📅 10–21 November 2025
The 30th UN Climate Change Conference will bring global leaders together in the heart of the Amazon to shape the next phase of climate action.
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Event Overview
The 30th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) will take place in Belém, Brazil, from Monday 10 to Friday 21 November 2025. The COPs are an annual opportunity for Parties and non-Party stakeholders to meet and shape our international response to climate change.
GAIN's Participation at COP
Food systems have become an increasingly prominent element of the climate negotiations and the wider COP agenda over recent years. In parallel, GAIN has engaged increasingly deeply with the process. For example:
At COP27, GAIN worked with the Government of Egypt to launch the Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition (I-CAN), which has gone from strength to strength since then, delivering work in over ten countries.
At COP28, GAIN supported the Presidency's ambitious food systems agenda, including the Emirates Leaders Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action. GAIN was also one of the founding members of the Technical Cooperation Collaborative, set up to support the implementation of the Declaration.
Throughout this time, we have also engaged with the negotiations - especially the Sharm El Sheikh Joint Work on Implementation of Climate Action on Agriculture and Food Security, making various submissions to the process.
GAIN at COP27
GAIN at COP28
GAIN's FOCUS in COP30
COP30 is set to be a significant moment for food systems under the UNFCCC. Several of the Government of Brazil's key areas of focus link to food systems, including: the Tropical Forests Forever Facility; the Belém Declaration on Hunger, Poverty, and Human-Centered Climate Action; 'breakthroughs' on fertilisers and food waste; and a wide-ranging Agriculture and Food Systems axis under the Presidency Action Agenda which will look at sustainable production, resilient food systems, and food security and nutrition. There is also likely to be a significant focus on biofuels.
In the negotiations, Parties will discuss the future of the agriculture negotiations, including the response to the workshop held in Bonn in June on systemic and holistic approaches. Other areas of the negotiations, such as finance, just transition, and adaptation, will also have crucial connections to food systems.
GAIN's primary objective at COP30 is to fly the flag for coherent, holistic, integrated approaches to food systems transformation to achieve multiple benefits: climate adaptation and mitigation, enhanced resilience, improved food security and nutrition, a just transition, and wider progress towards the SDGs.
Together with partners, GAIN has developed a 'Plan to Accelerate Food Systems Transformation' under the Action Agenda, which is likely to launch on 19-20 November. It is designed to link ambitious governments to a suite of tools and resources, as well as implementation partners, to accelerate the implementation of commitments. Through I-CAN, we are also involved in a Plan to Accelerate Policy Convergence, led by the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development.
GAIN will be present in the Sharm El Sheikh Joint Work on Implementation of Climate Action on Agriculture and Food Security (SSJWA) negotiations and will follow the adaptation agenda, especially advocating for nutrition indicators within the new list under the Global Goal on Adaptation (Global Climate Resilience Framework).
GAIN's Representation
We will be represented in Belém by Oliver Camp, Environment and Food Systems Advocacy Advisor.
You can find us at the following key events, or connect directly with Oliver to meet during the conference:
Oliver Camp
Environment and Food Systems Advocacy Advisor
Agenda
| Date | Event | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, 10 November | COP30 Presidency Special Event – The Fundamental Role of Combating Hunger and Poverty for Climate Justice | 14:30–15:30 | Special Event Room Parnaiba |
| Tuesday, 11 November | High-Level Event on the Belém Leaders Declaration on Hunger, Poverty, and Human-Centered Climate Action | 09:30–10:30 | Axis 5 Thematic Room |
| Thursday, 13 November | Roundtable on the Plan to Accelerate Public Policies to Fight Climate Change, Strengthen Nutrition, and Promote the Agroecological Transition | 14:00–15:00 | Axis 3 Thematic Room |
| Friday, 14 November | Innovative Financing for Resilient Agri-Food Systems Transformation in Bangladesh Hosts: GAIN and the Government of Bangladesh | 11:30–13:00 | Bangladesh Pavilion |
| Saturday, 15 November | UNFCCC Official Side Event – Achieving Food and Nutrition Security, Climate, Nature, and Development Goals Moderator: Oliver Camp | 16:45–18:15 | Side Event Room 3 |
| Monday, 17 November | Event 1: I-CAN Solutions Showcase: Accelerating Integrated Nutrition–Climate Action Event 2: Plan to Accelerate Food Systems Transformation: Enabling and Showcasing Implementation of Ambitious National Commitments | 09:30–10:30 / 17:00–18:00 | Axis 3 Thematic Room |
| Tuesday, 18 November | Event 1: FAO – From Farm & Food to Future: Driving Climate Action through NDC3.0 Event 2: GIZ & Clim-Eat – ASEAN’s Path to Climate-Resilient and Nutrition-Secure Food Systems | 12:30–13:30 / 13:30–15:00 | NDC Pavilion / ASEAN Pavilion |
| Wednesday, 19 November | Event 1: Food, Climate and Territory: Building Resilient Food Systems for Climate Adaptation Event 2: Closed-Door Roundtable – Plan to Accelerate Policy Convergence and Coherence for Climate Action in Food Systems | 15:00–16:00 / 15:30–16:30 | Regional Climate Foundations Pavilion / Axis 3 Thematic Room |
| Thursday, 20 November | Resilience Hub Side Event – Negotiating Trade-Offs for Equitable Food Value Chains | 14:00–15:00 | Resilience Hub |
Resources and Assets
Advancing Synergies Across Nutrition and Climate Action
I-CAN ASSESSMENT 2025
The I-CAN Assessment 2025 aims to provide a snapshot into the current state of integration between climate and nutrition action across 16 indicators in policy and finance. Despite modest progress since 2023, the report makes clear that integration of climate and nutrition in key international and national policies and financing remains limited, slowing progress towards both reducing malnutrition and climate goals.
However, the report also helps to highlight priority areas for action, spotlighting examples of best practice we can learn from as we progress into the second half of this critical decade for the SDGs and climate action.
Environment at GAIN
At GAIN we consider how our work to increase access to healthy diets for all intersects with several dimensions of environmental sustainability including climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, water quality and scarcity, soil degradation and plastic waste.
In general, we aim to promote a sustainable food system which does not compromise the ability of our planet to provide nutrition for generations to come.
