Bonn, Germany, 26 June 2025 – After two tense weeks of negotiations, one breakthrough emerged in the SB 62 climate talks: civil society’s Just Transition priorities were officially tabled in the UN climate process, thanks to relentless pressure from social movements, workers, and frontline communities. This vital step opens the door in the fight for transitions that put people first – ensuring climate action centres justice, dignity, and decent work, rather than enabling corporate greenwashing or elite control.
This latest draft text on the New Collective Quantified Goal is not just a joke – it’s an insult to the people in the Global South living on the frontline of the climate crisis. The $250 billion per year in public finance is peanuts. The Global South must not carry the burden of historic emitters’ failure to act. No deal is better than a bad deal – but we are not done yet.
Baku – In response to the latest draft text for the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG):
Tasneem Essop, Executive Director, Climate Action Network International, said: “The latest draft NCQG text remains glaringly incomplete without the concrete numbers for the finance goal – the very cornerstone of any agreement at COP29
Ahead of a High Level Ministerial Dialogue on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on climate finance and the Pre-COP meeting in Baku this week, Climate Action Network (CAN) is sending a clear and unequivocal message from more than 130 #CivilSociety organisations: failure to deliver an ambitious #ClimateFinance outcome at COP29 is not acceptable. Baku
SWITCH-Asia joins 60th Sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies advocating for SCP to enhance climate ambitions in South Asia
By Sanjay Vashist
As climate induced disasters intensify around the world, South Asia has been reeling under extreme heatwaves, deadly floods, and the destruction unleashed by Cyclone Remal, that have together claimed hundreds of lives, wiped out livelihoods, destroyed infrastructure and reversed what little development gains made by countries in the region.
20 September 2023: Several leaders made compelling statements at the #UNClimate Ambition Summit today in New York. Leaders from Chile, Colombia and the Governor of California called out fossil fuels as the main cause of the climate crisis but some of the worst polluters- and among the richest countries – were conspicuous by their absence. They […]
By Lani C. Villanueva
More than twenty thousand people took to the streets today in 10 Asian countries to demand a rapid, just and equitable end to fossil fuels. The Asian mobilizations kicked off historic climate marches happening around the world this week. Millions are expected to join more than 650 climate marches and actions planned between September 15 to 17 in 60 countries.
Colombo/Dhaka/Islamabad/Kathmandu/ New Delhi, 6 September 2023: Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA), a network of 250 civil society organizations of 8 countries in #SouthAsia has called upon G20 Leaders meeting in New Delhi, India on the 9-10 September to set an ambitious climate agenda ahead of the #COP28 climate summit later this year and commit […]
August 3, 2023, New Delhi: G20 leaders must recognize and actively support civil society organisations and health professionals for raising awareness, promoting sustainable practices and garnering public support for policies that promote climate action and reduce #AirPollution, was the conclusion and call to action at a #C20 discussion organized by Climate Action Network South Asia, […]
