'We must urgently pick up the pace starting from COP30' (Simon Stiell, UN CC Executive Secretary)

'We are in a new era of climate action and ambition. Countries are setting national climate targets - and plans to achieve them - that differ in pace and scale to anything that has come before. Countries are increasingly taking a whole-of-economy, whole-of-society approach, with 89% containing economy-wide targets (compared with 81% in their previous NDCs).
Ten years after we adopted the Paris Agreement, we can say simply - it is delivering real progress. But it must work much faster and fairer, and that acceleration must start now. Today’s NDC Synthesis Report provides valuable new data, both about progress being made and the major challenges still remaining, although this data is limited to those national climate plans formally submitted by 30/09/2025', declared Simon Stiell, United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary, on the launch of the ‘Nationally Determined Contributions Synthesis Report’, released on 28/10/2025.

'While we caution against drawing global conclusions from this report, it still contains some green shoots of good news: countries are making progress and…