Brasília, Brazil – Greenpeace has urged countries to use the Brazil COP30 Presidency's roadmaps on ending deforestation and transitioning away from fossil fuels as a driving force for next week's UN climate summit COP31 to help deliver a 1.5°C future.
After committing to developing the roadmaps at COP30, the Brazil presidency unveiled the roadmaps in Brasília, today. The Roadmap for Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels (TAFF) outlined different scenarios and measures to facilitate the transition, while taking into account different national circumstances and reinforcing the importance of climate justice.[1]
The 2030 Forests Roadmap highlights existing efforts to combat forest loss, the international architecture for forest action and for financing it, and provides concrete proposals for the road ahead as part of international efforts to end forest destruction by 2030, as agreed at COP28.
Carolina Pasquali, Executive Director, Greenpeace Brazil said: "This is a major effort by the COP30 Presidency and a crucial step towards ensuring the COP28 decision to transition away from fossil fuels is fully implemented. As our climate races towards a 1.5°C overshoot, the roadmap encourages important measures but stops short of setting clear fossil fuel phase-out targets or calling for an immediate halt to the expansion of fossil fuels.
"The Forests Roadmap also represents a major effort from the COP30 presidency and was launched with the credibility of a Brazilian government that has achieved the lowest deforestation rate in its history. The presidency has helped bring together, through multiple contributions and dialogues, a wide range of existing initiatives and views."
Tracy Carty, Climate Politics Expert, Greenpeace International said: "Brazil's TAFF roadmap makes clear that the pace of the transition is falling well short of achieving 1.5°C. While it misses the mark by failing to include explicit phase-out timelines, it recognises the need for accelerated action in line with justice and equity and backed by finance.
"The fossil fuels roadmap must now serve as a catalyst to raise ambition and drive urgent action at COP31 and beyond. COP31 can and must deliver concrete action to end fossil fuels: including agreeing a global 35 percent by 2035 electrification goal to propel renewable power and displace fossil fuels, establishing a Just Transition Mechanism to co-ordinate, guide and enable support for workers and communities and securing scaled-up international climate finance for implementation."
An Lambrechts, Biodiversity Politics Expert, Greenpeace International said: "To return global warming to 1.5°C, build climate resilience and prevent irreversible ecosystem collapse, it's imperative that we implement the 2030 target to halt and reverse forest destruction. After the global community's failure to take strong decisions on forests at COP30, Brazil's forest roadmap initiative has kept the ball rolling and its publication is the catalyst to translate commitments into action.
"Other countries now need to step forward and join Brazil in charting a course for transparent, equitable and inclusive implementation of the 2030 forest and biodiversity targets. They represent a hard planetary boundary. The Earth can no longer afford a disjointed approach to forest governance."
