What is COP30?
COP30 is the 30th annual UN climate meeting. It is meeting in Brazil between Monday 10 November to Friday 21 November 2025.
They publish daily agendas and lots of videos, news items, daily photo highlights and all kinds of information on the COP30 website here - you can watch many events live or on-demand.
COP stands for "Conference of the Parties". "Parties" refers to the nearly 200 countries that have signed up to the original UN climate agreement of 1992.
What does it mean for us in Norwood?
No need to travel to Brazil, there is plenty happening locally.
Norwood Forum has been raising awareness of the bigger environmental picture and identifying ways in which we can focus on grass roots change for many years: what can we do that doesn't - quite literally - cost the earth.
During COP30 we will be posting news items below and across our social channels highlighting local projects including our own Green Norwood, and hopefully providing some inspiration too.
Remember Green Norwood are holding two more public workshops on 18 and 22 November - find those details here:- we very much hope to see many of you at one of them.
Monday 10 November
Norwood Forum would like to mark the start of COP30 in Brazil today with a good news story from our local neighbourhood relating to the Transport for London's (TfL) Travel for Life programme.
The number of Lambeth schools who have been awarded gold in the ‘Travel for Life’ programme has doubled from eight to sixteen and those achieving bronze from four to fourteen.
We would particularly like to congratulate Rosendale Primary School who won gold in September 2024 and Rosemead Preparatory School who were awarded the same gold recognition recently in September 2025. Full story here
Tuesday 11 November
At COP30 today in Brazil they were looking at progress on the Paris Agreement (keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius).
But - what can we do?
All of Norwood Forums environmental work sits under our 'Green Norwood' banner and we will be hosting two further workshops (18 and 22 Nov) as we develop new strands of work. Everyone is very welcome to attend.
The outcomes from the workshop we held in September and our recent survey, as well as times and venue details for the coming workshops can be found here.
Wednesday 12 November
A renewables revolution
At COP30, the talk has been about a 'renewables revolution' across the globe. Already in the UK, renewable energy is generating about half of our electricity.
Norwood Forum's Green Norwood project wants to help make solar power a reality for our community. Read our full News story here