Peoples demand finance, just transition, no carbon markets. 

Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) 

MEDIA ADVISORY: For Immediate Release

Opening Press Conference for COP30: Nov 11, 2025 

Belem, Brazil—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, and with climate denialism and unscientific temper at its peak, the defining question for COP30 is whether Global North countries (with or without the US “officially” hereof) are willing to cooperate with the Global South and deliver their fair share of climate action via paying their climate debt, rejecting false solutions and dangerous distractions, and justly ending fossil fuels. 

COP30 in Brazil will take place against the geopolitical landscape with US President Trump’s global trade war accelerating economic instability amid intensifying resource competition while ongoing genocidal wars are recasting government priorities.. The Global North countries that have shown up at the COP30 have a choice —whether to do like the US does, which is to show up with empty pockets, or they can engage with the Global South without the smoke and mirrors and finally get serious about meaningful climate action.   

A global mutirão (a Portuguese term for a collective, joint effort, often a community project where people work together to achieve a common goal) 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, 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 and delivering a just transition free of false solutions. 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. 

Join Climate experts, activists and campaigners from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) at the DCJ Opening Press Conference as they state priorities, key demands and narratives for COP30. 

WHEN 12th November 2025, 11 am Brasilia Time (GMT-3) 

WHERE Press Conference 2, Area D, Room 2, Hangar Convention and Fair Centre in Belém, Brazil

WHO 

• Meena Raman, Third World Network
• Carola Mejia, Latindadd 
• Nona Chai (They/Them), Just Transition Alliance
• Rachel Rose Jackson, Corporate Accountability 
• Moderated by Sara Shaw, Friends of the Earth International 

CONTACT Esthappen S, Communications Coordinator, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (Whatsapp: +91 9820918910, Email: [email protected])

RESOURCES 1. Link to recording. 2. Images.