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).

Resources and Assets

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.

Learn more about Environment at GAIN

Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition (I‑CAN)