PML at the UN Climate Change Meeting COP30

Monday 10 November 2025 - Friday 21 November 2025

Location: Belém, Brazil

PML’s ocean, cryosphere and climate experts will be playing active parts in the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30), in Belém, Brazil from 10- 21 November 2025.

With global temperatures hitting record highs, and extreme weather events affecting people around the globe, COP30 will bring together leaders from governments, business and civil society to advance concrete solutions to the defining issue of our time.

This COP30 is particularly important as it marks a critical halfway point to 2030, when countries are expected to meet their climate pledges under the Paris Agreement. With this year, 2025, the deadline for countries to submit their updated national climate plans, known as NDCs under the Paris Agreement.

PML experts have attended each COP since 2009 and over the years their work and that of the wider ocean community has seen Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) recognising the importance of protecting the ocean and its ecosystems in the Convention and Paris Agreement.

To increase the visibility of the ocean at the COPs and to make ocean events more accessible the team was a co-founder of the 1st Virtual Ocean Pavilion at COP26 and a founding partner of the 1st Virtual Ocean Pavilion at COP27. At COP30 PML experts will continue to play active roles highlighting the enormous role the ocean plays in sustaining life on Earth, the consequences of a high CO₂ world for the ocean and society and options for action. You can find more information about the planned events and activities on this age soon and in the mean time why not visit the UN Ocean Decade-endorsed COP30 Virtual Ocean Pavilion.

For any questions please contact PML’s COP30 coordinator Thecla Keizer, tke@pml.ac.uk