Who’s Blocking Climate Finance in the Global North?
11 November, 2026
Who’s Blocking Climate Finance in the Global North?
Antalya, Turkey – The International Court of Justice in last year’s landmark Advisory Opinion on the responsibilities of States with regard to climate change, clearly called the provision of public finance to developing countries, a binding legal obligation of developed countries, including for loss and damage. Yet the countries who got rich by exploiting the people of the Global South and plundering their resources continue to fail to provide the climate finance they owe developing countries for their climate action. This includes their Nationally Determined Contributions, National Adaptation Plans and Technology Action Plans. At the same time they continue to pull every trick possible to avoid any meaningful discussion about provision of public grant based climate finance at COP31.
Last year at COP30 in Belem governments agreed to begin a Climate Finance Work Programme to hold rich countries accountable to their obligations. However, the Global North not only continues to block progress at COP31, but has significantly reduced their climate contributions while increasing their military budgets and subsidising fossil fuels.
Join us to hear from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) members as they shed light on the reality of the political forces and the key actors whose tactics are not only derailing climate talks at Antalya but also worsening the climate crisis globally.
WHEN: 11 November 2026 | 11AM Antalya Time (8AM GMT) online link
WHERE: Press Conference 2, Area D4
WHO:
- Laurie van der Burg, Oil Change International
- Leon Sealy Huggins, War on Want
- Niranjali Amerasinghe, ActionAid USA
- David Williams, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
- Victor Menotti, Moderator, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice
For interviews and other queries:
Juliah Kibochi & Sidharth Pandey
