SDG 13: Climate Action | SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Institutions: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
The UN Climate Summit 2025, held alongside the 80th UNGA in New York, spotlighted the urgency of climate action in a year of record heatwaves and disasters. Framed as a forum to showcase solutions and partnerships, the Summit highlighted persistent gaps in climate finance, adaptation support, and global trust. Developing nations accused wealthy countries of breaking promises, especially the $100 billion per year climate finance goal, and called for accountability and equity.
The Summit also emphasised information integrity, scaling of mitigation and adaptation innovations, and preparing political ground for COP30 (Belém, Brazil, Nov 2025). For the Global South, climate justice remained central: urgent finance, technology transfer, and capacity building were demanded as preconditions for a credible global climate regime.
For India, the Summit reaffirmed the need to push climate diplomacy around climate finance, adaptation, and technology equity. India can leverage its leadership in International Solar Alliance, Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, and LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment) to shape outcomes, while ensuring its own growth–climate balance. This also signals that India’s domestic climate policies (renewables, EVs, green hydrogen) will be scrutinised globally for credibility and ambition.
What is COP30? → The 30th UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) will be hosted in Belém, Brazil in November 2025, with a focus on reviewing national commitments (NDCs), strengthening adaptation, and securing climate finance.
Relevant Question for Policy Stakeholders:
How can India build coalitions within the Global South to secure climate finance and technology transfer commitments ahead of COP30?
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