1/2. “The COP of Truth cannot ignore science. 75% of carbon emissions come from fossil fuels. Today we are not even allowed to discuss pathways for a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.” Colombia at the close of #COP30.

📢 The climate talks #COP30 in Belém conclude with a largely empty deal: ❌ No halt to deforestation, ❌ No fossil fuel phaseout, and ❌ No climate finance at the scale the crisis demands. Our reaction: www.ciel.org/news/cop30-f... A 🧵👇

📣 At #COP30, one thing is clear: The framework that guides the climate talks is falling short! Colombian minister Irene Vélez Torres goes straight to the point while explaining why #FossilFuels aren’t COP30 text: Consensus kills ambition‼️ We couldn't agree more! A 🧵

#COP31 is now expected to be held in Turkey after Australia dropped its bid to host the event, in return for its minister chairing the talks. Choosing a host shouldn't be a saga. The decision should be made based on their commitment to #ClimateJustice, science & #HumanRights. A short 🧵 👇

🔥 Spot on remarks by Colombia minister Irene Vélez Torres 🔥 UN climate talks continue ending up in lowest-common-denominator-outcomes failing to uphold legal obligations because of the way the process is built. Consensus kills ambition. Reform is urgent. #TheCOPWeNeed

Week 2 has begun at #COP30 with unacceptable measures being taken. A #UNFCCC letter triggered a massive security escalation in Belém—intimidating Indigenous Peoples & silencing peaceful protest. Indigenous defenders are protecting the planet; they must never be sidelined in #ClimateAction.🧵

Momentum keeps building 🙌 Incredible development from our High-Level Ministerial event here at #COP30 Cambodia’s leadership strengthens the push for a global agreement to end expansion and scale finance for a just, people-centred transition. ✊🌎

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗨𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧 🚨 175+ orgs urgently call on Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, to immediately reverse the harmful directive sent to Brazil that has massively intensified the presence of security forces at #COP30 and in the streets of Belém. 🔗 climaterights.org/wp-content/u...

#IndigenousPeoples came to #COP30 to defend their land, future & our planet. They were met with lines of security forces. This is the result of a UNFCCC letter. We joined 170+ orgs in calling on the UNFCCC to de-escalate, listen & protect the right to peaceful protest. A mini 🧵

🚨200+ orgs call on #UNFCCC to reverse the harmful directive that escalated security at #COP30. ✊We stand in solidarity with #IndigenousPeoples & Env. Human Rights Defenders. We call on the #UNFCCC to de-escalate & protect the right to peaceful protest at #COP30 and beyond. 👉Read: shorturl.at/2vGaj

From #COP30 in Belém: Human Rights & Justice Days are on the main stage. UN Human Rights and Special Envoys brought movements ➕ experts together with one message: climate action must be human-rights–based to be effective. #ClimateJustice A 🧵

Several States at #COP30 are feeling nervous this week. Turns out, clarifying your legal obligations is uncomfortable when you’ve been ignoring them. A short thread to clarify how the International Court of Justice climate ruling is a lens 🔎 not handcuffs 🚔. A 🧵

#COP30 does business as usual on land that belongs to #IndigenousPeoples, while the #UNFCCC excludes their voices & denies their right to participate. This week’s actions by Munduruku Indigenous Peoples from Brazil were powerful reactions to deep-rooted rights violations ignored for far too long. 🧵

📢 #FossilFuel lobbyists have received 2/3 more passes to #COP30 than all the delegates from the 10 most climate vulnerable nations combined, showing how industry presence continues to overshadow that of those on the frontlines of the #ClimateCrisis. Time to #KickOutTheSuits!

#COP30 is taking place in Brazil, home to more than 300 Indigenous Peoples safeguarding the Amazon. Once again, the #UNFCCC sidelines #IndigenousPeoples, denying them effective participation in the very spaces where their future is negotiated. 👉 Read: apnews.com/article/unit... 🧵👇

"One in every 25 participants at this year’s UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist." 😡😡 "This is corporate capture, not climate governance,” said @lienvandamme.bsky.social of @ciel.org.

Today in @canclimateaction.bsky.social's #COP30 #ECO newsletter: why the International Court of Justice climate ruling matters, incl. for #LossAndDamage 👏 to the many countries ready to secure decisions that uphold the law ❌ pushback should be isolated 🗣️ those remaining silent must speak up

Today, CIEL & Climate Action Network joined 5 thousand people from 60 countries sailing on the rivers surrounding the #COP30 host city. The #AmazonFlotilla is not just a protest or a journey. It's an #IndigenousPeoples-led act of resistance, hope & empowerment: amazonflotilla.quipa.org A 🧵

Today at the #Portugal Pavilion 🇵🇹 at #COP30: powerful panel on protecting Environmental Human Rights Defenders. #EHRDs. Happening during Gender Action Day is a reminder that climate action only works when the people, particularly women, defending our planet can do so safely.

‼️ NEW opinion piece by CIEL's Rebecca Brown and @lienvandamme.bsky.social for @climatechangenews.com ‼️ The world doesn’t just need stronger climate targets. It needs a fairer, faster, and more accountable multilateral system to deliver #ClimateAction. 👉 ciel.org/we-must-rewr... 👈 A 🧵

On the 1⃣ day of #COP30, the #LossAndDamageFund opened the call for proposals for its start-up phase. #COP30 must give guidance to scale the Fund in line with needs & to center justice, rights, without this the Fund risks becoming a climate bank with neither money nor remedy. A 🧵

In the heart of the Amazon, for #COP30 🇧🇷🌎 The next two weeks, I’ll be in Belém advocating with @ciel.org and allies in the Human Rights & Climate Change Working Group for #HumanRights-based climate action, grounded in #law, #justice & #accountability. 🧵

Exclusive by me: How thousands fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then oil and gas companies kept drilling www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Arrived in Belém for #COP30, the first one after the historic climate ruling by the International Court of Justice ⚖️ @ciel.org will be on the ground advocating for climate action based on legal obligations and calling for a deep reform of the UN climate regime to make it more effective & inclusive.

✊ We need to reform the climate negotiations process and make sure the voices of people on the frontlines, not the voices of polluters, are taking center stage. ✊ READ our call to #FixTheUNFCCC: www.ciel.org/wp-content/u... #TheCOPWeNeed #KickBigPollutersOut

🚨Breaking🚨 🕴️Just a few days ahead of #COP30, today, the #KickBigPollutersOut coalition uncovered that there are more than 5000 fossil fuel lobbyists attending the climate talks over the past four years. It's high time to #KickBigPollutersOut: www.theguardian.com/environment/... A 🧵

🚨New analysis: States are flouting their legal duties re. #NDCs. With only 64 NDCs (roughly ⅓ of countries) in at #COP30, few polluters on target, & many major emitters’ plans missing, the world is failing to prevent harm & keep warming below 1.5°C. unfccc.int/sites/defaul...

⚖️ This isn’t just a policy gap: it’s a breach of legal duty. The #ICJ has ruled: NDCs are not wholly discretionary. States must: ✅ Submit on time ✅ Raise ambition over time ✅ Align with the 1.5°C limit ✅ Deliver their highest possible ambition

🛡️ #COP30 is a crucial opportunity to protect environmental defenders: bit.ly/47rtOyv CIEL’s @camillapollera.bsky.social explains why protection is a legal duty and how Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP) and Gender Action Plan (GAP) decisions in Belém can make it real.

1/14. 📢NEW BRIEF: What does the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) ⚖️historic Advisory Opinion (#ICJAO) on the obligations 🧑‍⚖️ of states in regard to #ClimateChange mean for #LossAndDamage 🔥🌊⛈️ under the #UNFCCC? 🤔 🔗Find out here: www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/th... @ciel.org

🌎 Ahead of #COP30, we need less politics & more law. 🗣️ CIEL's @erikalennon.bsky.social, says this year the world must break the political gridlock that has defined climate negotiations. Countries must take ambitious climate action or risk violating their obligations under int'l law.👇 bit.ly/4ovq70n

Happening NOW in the Philippines 🔥 💰 Governments spend $1.2tn for military budget while leaving crumbs for #LossAndDamage. This is unacceptable! Philippine & international civil society stand in solidarity with Palestine & climate-frontline communities, calling to #EndTheGenocide & #FillTheFund!

🚨 The 7th Board meeting of the Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage starts tomorrow in Manila. But the Fund is on life support: $399M paid in - less than 0.1% of the hundreds of billions needed. And key promises on access for communities and all climate-vulnerable countries not being met.

This week, the #LossAndDamage Fund has an opportunity to change course towards a fund rooted in justice. The Board meets for the 1st time since the International Court of Justice issued its historic climate ruling, with major implications for the Fund 👇 www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/03/t...

#BlocchiamoTutto. Against governments’ silence, against genocide, against impunity. As workers across Italy call for a #GeneralStrike, CIEL UNITE shows its unwavering solidarity with the #GlobalSumudFlotilla, striking workers in Italy, and all those resisting genocide.

Climate Action Network International will be on strike on October 3rd as a mark of solidarity with: 🇵🇸 the Palestinian people 🚢 the illegally abducted activists on the #GlobalSumudFlotilla 🇮🇹 and Italian unions calling for action. climatenetwork.org/2025/10/02/c... #FreePalestine

CAN condemns the illegal Israeli aggression against the #GlobalSumudFlotilla and its activists. International law is clear. Israel is in violation. We call for the immediate and safe release of those illegally abducted by Israel. Full statement: climatenetwork.org/2025/10/02/c... #FreePalestine

For decades, #FossilFuel & high-emitting industries have sabotaged climate progress through lobbying, disinformation, and PR stunts. Now, Brazil’s #COP30 President invited corporations to join in Belém without clear safeguards against greenwashing or conflict of interest. This is #CorporateCapture.

For the entire history of UN climate talks, #BigPolluters have undermined ambitious climate action through lobbying & disinformation. Now Brazil's @Cop30noBrasil Presidency invited business leaders to #COP30 without protections against #greenwashing or conflict of interest

It's time to end #BigPolluters' stranglehold over the UN climate talks. +225 organizations are drawing the line! We demand: ✊ A polluter-free #COP30 and presidency ✊ Mechanisms to protect against #ConflictOfInterest ✊ Protection of the Amazon rainforest 🔗 kickbigpollutersout.org/Polluter-Fre...

The world’s people are demanding action and at #COP30, leaders have a chance to answer. Greenpeace head @madsflarup.bsky.social argues during this #ClimateWeek that it’s time to let the majority decide at UN Climate Summits. Read more >> www.climatechangenews.com/2025/09/22/i...

🆕 Research reveals that rich countries can unlock $6.6 tn for climate action by ending fossil fuels handouts, making polluters pay, defunding wars & taxing the super rich. There’s no shortage of $$. It’s just in the wrong hands. #FixtheFinance ➡️ Read more: oilchange.org/we-can-pay-for-it

At #HRC60, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is connecting the dots: no #JustTransition without #HumanRights. Tomorrow, we’ll discuss what this means for #COP30. 🗓️ 18 Sep 2025 | 13:00-14:00 📍 Palais des Nations, Geneva - & online 🔗 Join us: bit.ly/4gyZFAs

CIEL is proud to stand with the #KickBigPollutersOut coalition as the #UNFCCC takes a critical step: forcing all COP30 participants to publicly disclose their funders and affirm alignment with the Paris Agreement. KBPO Press Release 👇 bit.ly/4gnv097

📢The #UNFCCC is failing to tackle the #ClimateCrisis at the speed necessary to protect people & planet. Reform of the UN climate talks #COPs is needed. Our own @erikalennon.bsky.social and other experts weigh in on how. Read this @carbonbrief.org article: bit.ly/46vRW2n More in 🧵⤵️

⚡ ⚖️ 🌐 happening now: #ClimateLitigation court hearing in Zug, Switzerland 🇨🇭, in 𝐴𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑣. 𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑐𝑖𝑚. This civil law case seeks to hold one of the largest carbon major accountable for climate harms. 🧵 live reporting from the Court house, with summary of legal arguments and key elements of context👇

Happening today! ⚖️ Asmania v. Holcim is a groundbreaking case of frontline communities demanding justice, accountability and reparations from #carbonmajors for the climate devastation they are facing. 👉 Follow @duycks.bsky.social for live updates from the court

Great article by @juliadehm.bsky.social on how the international legal system favors corporations while leaving people and communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis behind when it comes to reparations. #ClimateReparations #ISDS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Next week 👉 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆 & 𝒅𝒆𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒆: 𝒀𝑼𝑴𝑰 – 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 Documentary on the Pacific youth campaign that brought the climate crisis to the world’s highest court 🔥 ⚖️ 📅 2 Sept | 18:30 📍 Cinélux, Geneva ✅ Free entry! Reserve your seat: shorturl.at/hvIE4

🚨 This text gives in to petrostates and industry demands — Member States must reject it. The chair's draft text has just dropped at #PlasticsTreaty talks. CIEL's @Davzoul responds.