What changed

From · resolution motion · 13 Oct 2025 B-10-2025-0445 on the UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30)

To · Adopted text · 23 Oct 2025 TA-10-2025-0254 UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30)

✦ In short · AI narration of the differences below, generated 4 Sept 2026

The adopted text removes a paragraph on defence sector emissions and changes 'gender equality' to 'gender equity'. #15 #12 All other changes are formal: decimal commas are replaced with decimal points throughout. #1 #2 #3 #4

2 changes of substance, plus 13 formal. Each change below carries a one-line ✦ note from the same model. Written from the two texts only — read the highlighted passages before relying on it.

The changes to the text itself, in document order. Cover page, citations (“having regard to …”), standard resolution paragraphs and punctuation-only edits are left out — they are in “Show every difference”.

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Change #12 Substance

Changes the wording from 'gender equality' to 'gender equity' in the list of cross-cutting issues.

12. Calls on all Parties to make meaningful progress at COP30 to ensure that the second GST, beginning in 2026, is guided by the best available science and integrates cross-cutting issues such as gender ~~equality,~~equity, human rights and ecosystem protection;

Change #15 Substance

Drops an entire paragraph on the defence sector's role in climate action and military emissions transparency.

~~Defence sector~~

91. Stresses that the defence sector must contribute to tackling climate change by reducing its emissions intensity while maintaining operational effectiveness and meeting Member States’ defence spending targets where agreed, and that the development of decarbonisation technologies and strategies in the defence sector should be accelerated; notes that the inclusion of disaggregated data on military emissions in UNFCCC submissions is voluntary, and that it is not currently possible to identify reported military GHG emissions from the submitted UNFCCC data; calls on the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Commission and the Council to formulate a proposal to increase the transparency of the accounting of military emissions to the UNFCCC that takes into account national security concerns and that acknowledges the adoption of the Strategic Compass for Security and Defence, and in order to fully implement the Climate Change and Defence Roadmap;