The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP), the body responsible for decision-making on the implementation of the commitments adopted by countries to tackle climate change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), will take place in Belém, the capital city of the state of Pará in Brazil from November 10th to 21st, 2025. As climate impacts continue to escalate, with extreme events such as heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations particularly in the Global South, Brazil must be a moment for reinstating faith in the climate regime after a deeply disappointing failure of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The solutions lie with the most affected and this is why COP30 in Brazil must centre the priorities of the Global South and deliver genuine, transformative solutions rooted in international cooperation and Global North responsibility. 

A global mutirão can only be realised when it puts peoples and the planet at the centre and upholds the core principles of the UNFCCC and its Paris Agreement—Common But Differentiated Responsibility and Respective Capacity (CBDR-RC) and equity. The ICJ in its landmark advisory opinion recognises climate change as an urgent and existential threat facing the world, establishes states’ legal obligations to prevent climate harm and clarifies that countries, particularly for developed nations, have a duty to cooperate with other states to meet climate goals. This must pave the way for bold, ambitious, equitable collective action that prioritises climate justice and the spotlight must fall squarely on the provision of climate finance (Article 9.1of the PA) from developed to developing countries—a binding obligation under the Paris Agreement. It must also advance meaningful support for equitable and just transitions by delivering the Belém Action Mechanism (BAM), technological transfers, scale up adaptation efforts and fill the fund to address loss and damage. 

COP30 in Brazil will take place against the geopolitical landscape with US President Trump’s global trade war accelerating economic deglobalization amid intensifying resource competition while ongoing genocidal wars are recasting government priorities, resulting in repositioning negotiators’ expectations. Add in the US’s second exit from the Paris Agreement and the world is left wandering further off-track from 1.5C without participation of the nation with the most historical responsibility to reduce emissions and respective capabilities to provide finance and technology.

This is a crucial moment for Global South governments and movements to hold the leaders of the richest, industrialised nations accountable and stop their schemes that derail climate action. Rich countries cannot turn up empty handed at COP30 and play the same old games peddling failed solutions like carbon markets, distorting the agenda of Just Transition and adaptation, deviating from real solutions by investing the little climate finance put forth into neo-colonial schemes, this time it is the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF). 

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