Namibia will emphasise the need to accelerate the implementation of climate financing, capacity building, and technology transfer at the 30th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30).

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah will lead the Namibian delegation to the conference. 

Namibia is gearing up strategically for COP30 in Belém, Brazil, with a focus on organisation, clear agenda-setting and effective representation. 

The team is set to address complex questions about Namibia's evolving climate policies, including the integration of oil and gas development into the third Nationally Determined Contribution, anticipating scrutiny of emissions and mitigation plans.

Namibia's approach to COP30 is to harness the institutional frameworks developed over the past decade, such as the Green Climate Fund and the Adaptation Fund, and leverage them to improve practical outcomes. 

Petrus Muteyauli, the Head of Multilateral Environmental Agreements at the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT), said, "We'll of course finalise modalities about matters on loss and damage, especially the Loss and Damage Fund, which is supposed to help developing countries to cope with damages and losses associated with climate change impacts. We will also be finalising matters pertaining to climate finance, the roadmap to mobilise the N$1.3 trillion by 2025 and beyond to help developing countries cope with the adverse impacts of climate change. Of course, there are also pending issues when it comes to adaptation. We set ourselves an adaptation goal, and there have to be some indicators that are being developed.  There were over 4,000 indicators, but now we have streamlined them to just below a thousand."

Environmental Commissioner Timoteus Mufeti explained that "In the (third Nationally Determined Contributions) NDC3, which we are now starting to prepare, we are going to put NGC3 – I mean the oil and gas – in that report.  So you will find people asking Namibia, You say you are committing to this, and now you are going to produce oil and gas. How is your emission going to be, and how are you going to manage it?"

The conference is scheduled to take place from November 10 to 21, marking a key milestone roughly a decade after the adoption of the Paris Agreement.