21 November 2025

As the first Plenary begins at the UN climate conference, Climate Action Network welcomes the inclusion of the #JustTransition in the second Mutirão Decision text – but we urge parties to go further and launch the mechanism here in #Belem, and not defer to another round of development. 

Anabella Rosemberg, Just Transition Lead, Climate Action Network International said: “The battle is on to defend climate and people in the final hours of these negotiations. For #COP30 to deliver on justice, equity and truth, Parties must not only stay the course on Just Transition, but actually establish the Belem Action Mechanism here in the Amazon. The Just Transition decision is a package in its own right – linking ambition on the principles of justice, equity, inclusion and care with ambition on implementation. 

The BAM needs to be launched here at COP30, with Parties and civil society side by side, in support of the implementation of the #ParisAgreement and the Global Stocktake. The BAM must apply to energy, minerals, #Adaptation and every sector of the economy that has to transform for the sake of people and planet. What cannot happen here is for Just Transition to become a casualty of a broader Mutirão deal: Just Transition must be at the heart of final COP30 outcomes.”

Responding to the lack of meaningful text on Adaptation finance, Pooja Dave, Adaptation Lead, Climate Action Network International said:  “The latest Mutirão Decision text fails to recognise the needs of the most vulnerable people. Adaptation is not a bargaining chip, nor are people’s lives, livelihoods or rights. At least US$120 billion in annual grant-based, public and predictable finance is needed for Adaptation by 2030 from developed countries to developing countries. But developed countries are shying away yet again from showing the money on Adaptation and want to cheat vulnerable communities by agreeing to indicators, which, without grant-based, predictable, public finance, there is no Adaptation implementation to mark against.” 

Responding to the global response to address the ambition gap including the transition away from fossil fuels, Bronwen Tucker, Public Finance Lead, Oil Change International said: “Any roadmap to phase out fossil fuels that doesn’t come with the tools needed to implement it fairly in Global South countries will be a dead-end. We need to be clear that it is the EU blocking progress on finance and the overall justice package we need at COP30.  The transition away from fossil fuels has to happen in a just, equitable, and orderly way and the way to do this is through a Just Transition, which is what was agreed to in the GST outcome. To save COP30 in the final hours, rich countries need to show they are serious about phasing out fossil fuels first and fastest at home and put real, debt-free public money on the table here to fund climate adaptation and a just energy transition.”

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