Summary

As one half of the Environmental Non-Governmental Organisations (ENGO) Constituency at the UNFCCC, DCJ intervenes at plenaries and dialogues during the climate talks to hold governments accountable and ensure that parties get to hear peoples' demands and critiques. The UNFCCC mandates formal representation of civil society and speakers representing DCJ are given 30 second to 1 minute slots to intervene on critical issues.

Intervention 1

Thank you Chair and Presidency.

I want to start by disclosing that I have no ties with fossil fuel or big agriculture industry or any zionist entities. I echo everything said by my comrades from TUNGO, WGC and ENGO CAN.

This is a historic COP being held in the Amazon. Amazon and Brazil in general is the heart of the indigenous and peoples movement and organising for social justice and climate justice around the world. We stand in solidarity with the indigenous groups right to protest in any and all forms of expression. This is the very heart and spirit of the Brazil that celebrates peoples fundamental right to demonstrate.

Despite the peoples movement and indigenous groups mobilisation outside, we are quite concerned with the increased securitisation of the venue and the mobilisation of the authorities and police that has led to increased intimidation of not only delegates and civil society inside but also of our comrades outside from the local community. 

We organise outside because this space inside is not delivering on the demands of our peoples. There is increased corporate capture of these talks by the big polluters. The new research released today show that nearly 1600 fossil fuel lobbyists have flood this space pushing their fossil fuel, carbon markets, extractivist and false solution agenda in these halls yet there is still no conflict of interest policy in UNFCCC.

We also reject the increased push for the financialisation and commodification of our land, forests and territories through dangerous policies like TFFF and carbon markets that is not real climate finance but a tool to deepen the colonial control by the rich countries and corporation over our resources, our bodies and our very lives. 

We also call for your support in stopping developed countries from blocking the introduction of agenda items on implementing Article 9.1, addressing Unilateral Measures, and responding to NDC’s shortfall. 

Tomorrow we will march in the streets of Belem for international solidarity and for hope We will walk hand in hand and shoulder to shoulder with more than 15000 comrades, with the people of the countryside, the waters, the mangroves, the seas, the forests, with the workers of the cities, with women, youth, and children to raise our voice and demands for the peoples agenda at COP30 and show the world that real solutions and decisions for our communities will not happen inside these halls but out on the streets.

We end by saying that today and every day, we follow the leadership of Indigenous women who defend life with courage and dignity. Their legitimate struggle reminds this process that there is no climate justice without Indigenous Peoples rights.

There is no climate justice without Palestinian liberation.

Intervention 2

Executive Secretary,

We are here today in Brazil with a profound sense of disbelief and anger.

Maybe you don’t remember, but The UNFCCC was created in 1992, born from the mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of people at the Rio Summit who demanded global climate action. Civil society, Indigenous Peoples, and grassroots movements are the ones who forced governments to create this Convention.

Thirty-three years later, we are back in the same country. But today, the very institution created by peoples power is actively silencing those people, inside these halls, outside these gates, and across the streets of Belém.

We begin by expressing our full solidarity with Indigenous Peoples of Brazil and of all territories. Their right to protest and defend their lands is non-negotiable. Yet this COP has seen violence and repression against Indigenous protesters in the Amazon, on their own land. And the UNFCCC has played a role in escalating this.

When the Secretariat sent a letter to the COP30 Presidency regarding an Indigenous Peoples protest, it triggered a decision by the Brazilian Government and the Presidency to dramatically increase security around the venue. Overnight, we saw more fences, more police, more restrictions, more intimidation.

This is not the Brazilian way. This is not the Amazonian way. The Amazon has always been a cradle of resistance, culture, community, and courage. Silencing Indigenous Peoples here is not only wrong. It is an insult to the history of this land.

And this is not the only silencing that UNFCCC has taken part in. The ban on APMDD to organise actions during week 1 is another unjust action by UNFCCC.

APMDD is a frontline organisation from the Philippines, a country that has already been battered by 21 super typhoons in 2025 alone, averaging one catastrophic typhoon every second week. Their communities are fighting for survival in a crisis they did not create. To silence voices of people living at the frontline of this crisis is indefensible. This is not what an inclusive UNFCCC looks like. Preventing them from raising their voices and sharing their lived experience goes against everything this process claims to stand for.

This silencing continued last week when rights based constituencies along with APMDD led an action outside the Blue Zone to draw urgent attention to the need for Adaptation finance for their country. Adaptation is not a technical issue for the Philippines but a matter of survival. Yet the increased pressure to prevent civil society from organising in and around COP is a worrying trend that has been going on since COP28.

The delay from your office effectively ensured that the ban ran through the entire week, removing any possibility for timely reversal and preventing APMDD from participating in any actions. The failure to respond speaks loudly, and the message it sends to Global South advocates is profoundly disheartening.

This was not an accident.

This was a message.

It tells the world exactly whose voices this institution values, and whose suffering it dismisses.

Corporate capture inside, repression outside

And yet, while frontline communities face bans, restrictions, and hostility, who moves freely inside this venue?

1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists.

531 CCS lobbyists.

And still no Conflict of Interest policy.

Let us say it plainly:

Polluters are not just present but they are flooding the negotiations.

They walk into rooms civil society is barred from.

They shape outcomes frontline communities will pay for with their lives.

The contrast is obscene.

Security clamps down on Indigenous protesters.

Frontline organisations like APMDD are banned.

But fossil fuel companies? They get badges, access, influence, and protection.

This is a crisis of legitimacy

Executive Secretary, this is not just another procedural failure.

This is a crisis of legitimacy for the UNFCCC.

Because if the institution built by people’s power is now being used to silence and criminalise those same people, then something is fundamentally broken.

Last week, more than 70,000 people marched in Belém.

Hundreds of thousands mobilised around the world.

And they marched not because this process is working but because it is failing.

People’s movements created the UNFCCC.

People’s movements gave it legitimacy.

And people’s movements will continue to hold it accountable no matter how many fences are raised or badges revoked.

We will not be silenced.

We will not be intimidated.

And we will not allow this COP to become a fortress for polluters and a graveyard for justice.

But let me say this clearly: you can police our bodies, but you cannot police our movements.

You can restrict our entry, but you cannot restrict our organising. Our power does not come from badges. It comes from our communities, our histories of resistance, and our global alliances.

Intervention 3: High Level Segment

Chair, Parties, colleagues,

I voluntarily disclose I have no ties with any fossil fuel company, big agriculture corporation or any zionist entities.

I begin by sharing our unwavering and absolute solidarity with the indigenous peoples and their right to protest in all forms of expression.

We come to this plenary from the streets of Belem, where more than 70,000 people marched last week in Belém, and hundreds of thousands mobilised across the world. Their message was clear: people are doing the work governments refuse to do. 

And yet in this room, we are being asked to celebrate the Paris Agreement, to applaud ourselves nine years later. Celebrate which progress.

The UNFCCC was created to cut emissions, yet global emissions continue to rise.
Governments were mandated to submit NDCs, yet so many did not and those who did submitted plans riddled with false solutions, offsets, carbon markets, and corporate wishlists instead of real emissions cuts.

We are told Paris was a success, but countries cannot even meet their own minimal, inadequate promises.
We are asked to cheer while the world burns.

And when it comes to finance, the most basic element of justice, what do we see?
Rich countries bicker over brackets, commas, “should, could, would,” but refuse to commit even a fraction of the public finance needed in the Global South.

These are the same rich countries who caused this crisis, the criminals of carbon, the architects of climate injustice. And now that the world is demanding accountability, they pull every possible trick to dodge responsibility, sabotage climate finance, and block any progress on a real Just Transition.

Because let us be clear:
A Just Transition cannot be powered by offsets, carbon markets, CCS fantasies, or land grabs.
A Just Transition cannot be dictated by corporations, colonial governments, and banks.
A Just Transition must centre workers, farmers, Indigenous Peoples, women, peasants, fisherfolks, queer, frontline communities and not the polluters.
A Just Transition means public finance, real emissions cuts, food sovereignty, care economies, and peoples-powered solutions and not commodification of our lands, forests, and lives.

But what do we see instead?
No money for adaptation.
No money for loss and damage.
No money for Just Transition.
Rich Governments can’t find any money for survival of humanity
yet they spend 5% of their GDP on defence, pouring trillions into weapons, militarisation, and war.

Countries and corporations willingly fuel genocide, from Palestine to across the world, but refuse to even count military emissions in their climate reporting. They have money for violence, but not for justice.

And then we are told that this COP is an inclusive space, where frontline voices will be heard.
But we witnessed active and continued silencing of Indigenous Peoples here in the Amazon.
We witnessed the silencing of civil society.
We witnessed frontline organisations banned and harassed.

This COP claims inclusivity yet it grants badges to:
1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists,
530 CCS lobbyists,
300 industrial agriculture lobbyists.

Badges for polluters. Access for those profiting from destruction. Influence for those who built this crisis.

Let us not forget, this process was born from struggle , from the streets of Rio where people demanded global climate action in 1992. Thirty-three years later, we are back in Brazil, but this institution has forgotten its origins. The UNFCCC exists because people built it and today those people are being silenced while the corporations destroying the planet are welcomed as partners.

Chair,
This COP cannot succeed while the voices of those least responsible and most affected are silenced, while the most powerful are rewarded for their obstruction, and while this institution continues to prioritise polluters over people.

The Peoples movement outside has shown us a different path.
Real solutions exist in our movements, our lands, our knowledge, our communities.
But they require justice, reparations, public finance, and a fast, fair, funded, forever fossil fuel phase-out.

We will continue to fight for that inside these halls, outside these gates, and across the world.
Because if governments will not deliver justice, people’s movements will.

There is no climate justice without Palestine liberation.

Intervention 4 (Undelivered)

Thank you, Chair and Presidency.

I am Prayash from Nepal, speaking on behalf of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice.

I would like to start by disclosing that I have no ties with the fossil fuel or big agriculture industries or any zionist entities. 

I echo everything our comrades from TUNGO and WGC and other constituencies have just said.

It is very ironic to see the increased securitisation and mobilizations of armed forces and authorities,…at the heart of social and indigenous movements, Amazon and Brazil barricading and increasing intimidation of everyone, including our indigenous comrades from the local communities.

We strongly reject the increased push for the commodification of our commons through dangerous false solutions like TFFF and Carbon Markets, deepening the colonial control over our lives and livelihoods, and we call for Global North countries to stop blocking the implementation of Article 9.1, addressing Unilateral Measures, commit to a new adaptation finance target and responding to NDC’s shortfall. 

On 15th, we marched hand in hand with more than 70 thousand comrades around the world.. in the streets of Belem, reclaiming people’s power and strongly rejecting the false solutions to the climate crisis.

At last, there is no climate justice without Palestinian liberation and indigenous peoples’ rights.

Thank You