MEDIA ADVISORY
For Immediate Release
With the US absent at 62nd session of the UNFCCC’s Subsidiary Bodies (SBs) in Bonn, the EU has now become the biggest blocker of climate justice before COP30 in Belem. Not only have we seen officials from Brussels block an agenda item to discuss their failure to deliver on their commitments for climate finance, but NATO countries have just today approved to spend 5% of their GDP on weapons for war.
It takes two-to-tango but the European Union (EU), Umbrella Group and Environmental Integrity Group (EIG) have left the Global South hanging on the dancefloor of negotiations. By blocking critical proposals from the developing countries and refusing to honor the fundamental commitments under the United Nations Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Paris Agreement, the developed countries are jeopardising the world’s chances of dealing with the looming climate collapse. Not crises, not catastrophe⸺a collapse.
Instead of rising to the moment, developed countries are blocking advancements on the Just Transition Work Programme and peddling dangerous distractions— carbon markets, offsets, techno fixes, and other false solutions— that serve polluters, not people.
Join the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) and its members in a press conference on the ‘Outcomes from Bonn’ calling out the blockers of a safe future for the world.
WHEN 26th June 2025, 10:30 am (GMT+2) Watch live.
WHERE Nairobi 4, Main building, Inside the World Conference Center, Bonn, Germany
WHO
- Meena Raman, Third World Network
- Seranya Solanki, Alliance of Non Governmental Radical Youth
- Dylan Hamilton, Alliance of Non Governmental Radical Youth
- Victor Menotti, DCJ US Coordinator
- Moderated by Rachitaa Gupta, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice
CONTACT Esthappen S, Communications Coordinator, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (Whatsapp: +91 9820918910, Email: [email protected])
KEY RESOURCES 1. Op-ed on Germany’s role in blocking climate action (English, German) 2. DCJ Finance Brief authored by VIctor Menotti 3. New Research on Carbon Offsets by Corporate Accountability 4. Four countries responsible for nearly 70% of projected CO2 pollution from new oil and gas – Oil Change international 5. CIvil Society Letter to UNFCCC Secretariat on censorship on Palestine Solidarity. 6. Quote sheet on Bonn outcomes. 7. List of demands from Palestinian COP30 Coalition 8. World’s largest expansion of fossil fuels on the Gulf Coast of the USA, more than all other countries combined.