Climate Action Network rejects the Belém 4X Pledge on Sustainable Fuels, which is co-sponsored by Brazil, Italy and Japan and supported by India. The pledge calls on countries to expand dubious “sustainable” fuels use globally by at least four times 2024 levels by 2035. The fuels promoted in the pledge include hydrogen and its derivatives, bioenergy such as biogases and biofuels, and synthetic fuels. This initiative is part of a growing trend of bio-based and hydrogen fuels being purported as energy and climate solutions.
More than 1,000 organisations from 106 countries – spanning trade unions, Indigenous leaders, feminist and youth movements, Afro‑descendant and peasant groups, environmental advocates, disability networks and community organisations – have united to urge governments to stop treating climate action as a numbers game. Their open letter calls for a Just Transition that makes climate work for the people who live its consequences.
Belém, Brazil – November 10 2025 – As COP30 opens, civil society warns that the world is at a crossroads: either deliver justice and equity, or watch the credibility of the UN climate process collapse.Climate Action Network (CAN), representing over 2,000 organisations in more than 130 countries, is calling for a course correction rooted in fairness, rights, and real finance. The network’s Justice Package sets out what must happen in Brazil for COP30 to succeed – beginning with the creation of a Belém Action Mechanism (BAM) for a Global Just Transition.
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 […]
