Mary’s COP30 Update

This week, Mary has been in Belém, the gateway to the Amazon rainforest.

She met with officials from all across the world, working together to drive global action on the twin climate and nature crises.

COP30 has five key priorities; to protect forests and nature, to accelerate the global clean energy transition, to scale up finance, to drive ambition and accelerate implementation, and to build global resilience to climate impacts like overheating, flooding, and desertification.

While there, Mary visited an Amazon Fund bee project to see first hand how UK funding is supporting forest friendly supply chains, protecting the incredible ecosystems of bees, preventing deforestation, protecting local incomes from the bioeconomy, and helping improve biodiversity.

Commenting, Minister Creagh said

“I’ll be working with partners like the World Resources Institute and WWF Brazil to understand how we can start to turn commitments into results for people and nature.”

Minister Creagh has attended talks with international colleagues from Vanuatu, Switzerland, and from around the world, to see how they can work together to implement nature-based solutions, whether that’s protecting coral reefs, tackling global food waste, or doing lower intensity fertilisers.

We are turning our commitments into action today, so that we can protect the planet tomorrow.