Civil Society Sounds Alarm on False ‘Solutions’ at COP30

20 November 2025 | 14:30 BRT | 17:30 UTC

Belém, Brazil—As COP30 enters its final days, civil society organisations will brief the press on false climate ‘solutions’ spreading across key workstreams of the international climate regime. They warn that this trend reflects deepening corporate capture of the COP process, underscored by the presence of more than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists at COP30 that rival entire delegations from vulnerable countries.

This briefing will gather climate activists and experts as they share how false solutions, ranging from carbon markets to Brazil’s Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), draw attention away from measures that can deliver real, meaningful change. It will also shed light on how trade measures branded as “climate-aligned” have become yet another false ‘solution’ that shifts the burden of climate action onto Global South countries while the Global North evades its responsibility for driving the climate crisis.

Climate justice groups caution that as long as these dangerous distractions persist, trust in multilateralism will continue to erode. Without real action, keeping 1.5°C alive and achieving a truly Just Transition will remain out of reach.

Date: November 20th, 2025
Time: 14:30 – 15:00 BRT | 17:30 UTC
Location: COP30, Blue Zone Press Conference 2 Area D and via Live Webcast

Organisers: IBON International, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ), Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), International Network for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net)

Speakers

Kirtana Chandrasekaran, Friends of the Earth International
Ghazali Ohorella, member of IPs Constituency & Human Rights and Climate Change Working Group
Paulo Bacca, Dejusticia
Janaina Uemura, Global Forest Coalition
Gertrude Kenyangi, Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment in Uganda

Moderator