Senate President Attends Regional Climate Summit in Brazil

President of the Senate, Carolyn Trench-Sandiford, attended the II Parliamentary Summit on Climate Change and Just Transition of Latin America and the Caribbean, held at Brazil’s National Congress in Brasília earlier this week.

The high-level gathering brought together parliamentarians from across the region to strengthen collaboration and align legislative strategies ahead of the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), scheduled for November 2025 in Belém, Brazil.

Organized by the Parliamentary Observatory on Climate Change and Just Transition (OPCC), a joint initiative of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and supported by the Open Society Foundations, the event was co-hosted by Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate, with the backing of several regional climate policy partners.

The summit will culminate in a Letter of Support for the Brazilian COP30 Presidency and a Joint Declaration by the OPCC, reaffirming the legislative commitment of participating nations to climate action. These documents will be formally presented at COP30.