Climate talks in the Amazon – Reporting on COP30
The UN climate change conference COP30 will bring together tens of thousands of participants from around the world for two weeks in the Amazon in Brazil in November 2025.
On the agenda are nation’s renewed climate plans (Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs), climate adaptation strategies, and climate finance. As the most important multilateral annual climate gathering, this year’s COP is set to be one of the most challenging yet. It is the first UN climate change conference where the United States, the world’s largest historical emitter, will not have an official federal government presence, and nearly 95 percent of countries missed the deadline to hand in new climate pledges.
Meanwhile, Brazil’s ambition to host an inclusive COP is undermined by accommodation shortages and high costs in the host city.
For journalists, COP30 provides both opportunities and hurdles. Reporters on-site can meet government, business, science, finance, and civil society representatives, while many others will cover the summit remotely. How can journalists cut through the jargon of technical negotiations, identify key storylines, and ensure compelling coverage from afar?
To support reporters around the world, Clean Energy Wire and n-ost invite you to join an online briefing with a panel of experienced COP correspondents. They will share insights, practical tips, and reporting angles for covering the conference.
Agenda
| 16.00 - 16.05 |
Welcome and introduction By moderator Julian Wettengel, Clean Energy Wire |
| 16.05 - 16.30 |
Reporting on COP30 – How to best tell the Belém story? Input from
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| 16.30 - 16.55 | Discussion and Q&A |
| 16.55 - 17.00 | Conclusions and Outlook |
Speakers
Daniela Chiaretti is an environment correspondent for Valor Ecônomico, one of Brazil’s leading newspapers. She has been covering socio-environmental issues on a daily basis for 20 years. Climate, development and biodiversity are her main areas of interest. She has been covering climate COPs since Poznam in 2008, as well as some biodiversity ones. Daniela has travelled more than 50 times to the Amazon, visited all the continents including Antarctica (and the Artic region) to see the impacts of the climate crisis. She tries to offset her emissions by talking and writing about what she has seen and heard to as many people as possible.
Timur Idrisov is from Tajikistan and is a seasoned environmental professional and senior adviser at The Little Earth, with a career spanning since the 2000s. A journalist by training, he also works as a freelance environmental journalist, contributing articles to a range of national and international media outlets. He drives NGOs' strategic programming, policy development and resource mobilisation, with a core focus on climate change, sustainable energy and community development. He has attended and followed several COPs over the years.
Chloé Farand is a French-British freelance climate reporter with plenty of experience covering international climate politics. Previously a full-time reporter for Climate Home News, she has covered all UN climate talks, or COPs, since 2016. Her work has been published in a range of outlets, including The Guardian, Semafor, Devex, and Context.
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