COP30 is organized in Belém, Brazil
11.11.2025
The United Nations’ 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) gathers this week in Belém, Brazil. The INTOSAI WGEA hosts two side events based on the results of the recently launched cooperative audit on climate change adaptation actions. In addition, SAI Brazil will host several events associated with the ClimateScanner. The INTOSAI has also its own Pavilion at the COP for the first time.
The first WGEA event taking place at the Finland Pavilion on Wednesday 12 November at 12:00–12:45, features a panel discussion on Auditing for Resilience: Protecting Public Budgets from Disaster Risks. The session begins with a keynote speech by Kamal Kishore, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of UNDRR on the Costs of climate induced risks and benefits of prevention. This will be followed by audit examples on disaster risk reduction. While the representatives from SAI Argentina, SAI Ukraine and SAI Chile will showcase their audit results online, Cintia Zaira Messias de Lima from SAI Brazil and Marc-Oliver Heidkamp & José Parente from the European Court of Auditors will also feed into the panel discussion onsite.
The second event on Friday 14 November at 15:00–16:30 calls for effective adaptation and aims to answer an important question - Why climate change adaptation plans fail and how auditors can help fix them? The session is framed around the recently published global summary Global Climate Adaptation Audits for a Resilient Future: Lessons and recommendations from Supreme Audit Institutions focusing on the results from over 50 performance audits on climate adaptation. It also brings in the latest assessments from the ClimateScanner.
The event starts with a keynote speech by Mirey Atallah, the Chief of the Adaptation and Resilience Branch within the UNEP's Climate Change Division and follows with a thematic panel discussion on the key findings from the global cooperative audits on climate change adaptation actions:
As panellists we will have Orville Grey, Head of Secretariat from NAP Global Network, Leticia Guimarães, Head of Carbon Markets from UNDP, and Carlos Lustosa from SAI Brazil, Technical Supervisor of ClimateScanner. The session includes several audit cases from the global cooperative audits on climate change adaptation actions: Canada, Indonesia, Marshall Island, and PASAI region, and a presentation from IDI
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The INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing (WGEA) aims to increase the expertise in environmental auditing and to enhance environmental governance with high-quality contribution and visibility by both members of the Working Group and non–member SAIs. Currently the INTOSAI WGEA consists of 86 member countries.
