Environmental Justice

17/11/2025: A report at COP30 reveals that the climate plans of G20 countries will deliver less than half the cut in emissions necessary to meet commitments in the Paris Agreement. Given their historic responsibility for emissions and greater capacity to act, these richest countries should lead from the front.

Source: Greenpeace International

14/11/2025: A group of nations, including much of Europe, the US and Japan, is obliged under the 2015 Paris Agreement to provide international “climate finance” to developing countries, with a target of $100bn a year by 2020. The target was finally met in 2022 although analysis shows that donors have relied substantially on loans and private finance to meet their obligations.

Source: Carbon Brief

12/11/2025: The Union of Concerned Scientists has warned that widespread dissemination of climate disinformation impacts public health, undermines democracy, and weakens the effectiveness of climate policies. Scientists have called out major platforms, including Meta, X, and TikTok, for actively spreading misinformation, disinformation, or false information.

Source: Inter Press Service

12/11/2025: According to a Lancet Countdown report, more than 1.7 million people in India died from outdoor PM2.5 air pollution in 2022, more than double the figure for 2020. Such losses undermine development goals and deepen inequalities, as poorer communities suffer the worst exposure while having the least means to adapt.

Source: Devex

12/11/2025: Oxfam and its activist partners at COP30 have delivered a petition demanding that the super-rich pay for climate damages. The petition is part of a global civil society campaign, which calls on governments to tax those who hold outsized responsibility for driving carbon emissions.

Source: Oxfam International

7/11/2025: The 30^th UN Climate Change Conference is taking place after two consecutive years of record-high global temperatures, and at a time when international relationships are being strained by wars and trade disputes. Here are six issues that delegates are expected to grapple with in Brazil.

Source: UN Environment Programme

7/11/2025: Architects of the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, to be promoted at COP30 in Brazil, hope to secure $125 billion from sovereign and institutional investors, creating a permanent tropical forest conservation fund. Surplus yields will be divided among qualifying forest countries, with priority for Indigenous and local communities.

Source: Mongabay

5/11/2025: Amnesty International calls on governments attending COP30 to resist aligning with US President Trump’s denial of the accelerating climate crisis. It also appeals for significant new climate finance, in the form of grants, not loans, from states that are the worst culprits for greenhouse gas emissions.

Source: Amnesty International

5/11/2025: The Baku to Belem Roadmap, published for the UN Climate Conference (COP30), aims to present how to increase climate finance for developing countries to at least US1.3 trillion annually by 2035. Greenpeace welcomes recognition that the UN tax convention could address concessional climate finance.

Source: Greenpeace International

31/10/2025: Total climate finance approvals for 2025 of $3.26 billion represent a record high for the Green Climate Fund, welcome news amid declining official development assistance and tightening global budgets. The Fund was established in 2010 to serve the Paris Agreement by increasing access to climate finance for developing countries.

Source: Devex