Energy and transition economics
2026-04-26
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Post-COP30 Belem 2026: NDC Trajectory, Amazon Fund, and the Forest Finance Reset
Five months after the gavel fell in Belem, the Promethean and Ceres practices assess what the conference actually delivered for tropical forest finance, NDC ambition, and the carbon market architecture taking shape across 2026 to 2028.
COP30 in Belem closed in November 2025 with a partial Belem Accord, an operational Tropical Forest Forever Facility framework, and a new generation of NDCs covering roughly 78 percent of global emissions. The package was incremental rather than transformational, but it locked in three things our clients need to plan around: a credible Bra...