Health, Forests, and Human-Centered Climate Action

• Launch of the Belém Health Action Plan to strengthen global health systems against climate impacts; built on climate justice and health equity principles.
• Establishment of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF): a performance-linked funding mechanism rewarding tropical forest nations for verified forest conservation.
• Adoption of the Belém Declaration on Hunger, Poverty, and People-Centered Climate Action, emphasising social protection, crop insurance, and community-level adaptation.

Climate Governance, Finance, and Negotiation Processes

• Introduction of the Belém Political Package, initiating a two-year negotiation process on climate finance, including obligations under Article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement.
• No agreement on a fossil fuel phase-out roadmap, reflecting sharp divides between developed countries and developing economies.
• Concerns raised about trade-related climate measures (e.g., CBAM), with developing countries pushing for fair and non-discriminatory frameworks.

Technology, Transparency, and Ethical Climate Action

• Launch of the Open Planetary Intelligence Network (OPIN) to improve global data interoperability for climate modelling, prediction, and decision-making.
• Introduction of the Global Ethical Stocktake (GES), a civil-society and ethics-based parallel review emphasising moral responsibilities in climate action.
• Announcement of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Implementation Alliance, aimed at mobilising investments and coordination to accelerate NAP execution in developing countries.

Energy Transition & Global Cooperation Initiatives

• Belém 4X Pledge calling for a fourfold increase in sustainable fuels (biofuels, biogas, hydrogen) by 2035.
• Colombia and the Netherlands announced the Santa Marta Conference on Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels, to discuss legal, economic, and social dimensions of phaseout.
• Brazil launched the Global Mutirão Platform, drawing on its community-mobilisation tradition to bridge the gap between climate pledges and real delivery.

India’s Position 

• Continues to uphold equity, climate justice, and CBDR-RC.
• Supports health-linked climate initiatives and forest conservation financing.
• Opposes unilateral carbon border measures (such as CBAM).
• Welcomes long-term finance negotiations under Article 9.1 while emphasising historical responsibility of developed nations.
• Projects its vision of inclusive growth, sustainable lifestyles (LiFE), and developmental equity across negotiations.