Belém, Brazil, Greenpeace is urging delegates in Belém to ensure COP30 results in a historic plan to end forest destruction and to urgently close the 1.5°C ambition gap.
Carolina Pasquali, Executive Director, Greenpeace Brasil said: "COP30 needs to be a turning point. We can no longer treat forest protection, transitioning away from fossil fuels or adaptation as a menu of options. The climate crisis is advancing on all fronts, and the response needs to be ambitious, courageous and immediate."
"President Lula made this clear at the Leaders Summit, stating that COP30 must deliver concrete roadmaps to reverse deforestation and to overcome our dependence on fossil fuels. He has sent the political signal; now it is time to turn it into real action. The world expects more than ambition in speeches, it expects leadership through action. That means concrete plans to end deforestation by 2030, to transition away from fossil fuel dependence, strengthening adaptation to increase climate resilience, and ensuring the finance needed to make it all real. The era of partial answers is over."
"If Belém is to make history, this must be the COP of coherence and implementation, the one that turns promises into pathways, hope into planning, and leadership into shared responsibility."
In Belém at COP30, Greenpeace is calling for:
- A Global Response Plan to address the 1.5°C ambition gap and accelerate emissions reductions in this critical decade, including decisive action to transition away from fossil fuels.
- A new, dedicated 5-year Forest Action Plan to end deforestation by 2030
- The establishment of a new standing UNFCCC agenda item to drive NCQG delivery, particularly scaling-up public finance from developed countries, and advance polluter-pays taxation to unlock scaled-up public finance for developing countries.
Tracy Carty, Climate Politics Expert, Greenpeace International said: "Amid turbulent geopolitics, COP30 needs to demonstrate global unity and commitment to multilateral climate action remains strong. But 2035 emissions targets are dangerously off track, and warnings of a 1.5°C overshoot are growing. It's this reality that governments must confront and take action to bridge the emissions gap, including by taking decisive action on fossil fuels to keep 1.5°C alive."
"After last year's disastrous NCQG outcome, COP30 must advance climate finance for mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage in developing countries. With five oil and gas giants earning nearly US$800 billion in profits over the past decade, governments must make polluters pay to help fund the action that's desperately needed. COP30 must deliver real, tangible progress on climate finance and send a clear signal to make polluters pay."[1]
An Lambrechts, Biodiversity Politics Expert, Greenpeace International said: "Worldleaders travelled to the first COP ever in the Amazon and must now ensure that this pivotal COP delivers for forests by adopting an action plan to end forest destruction by 2030."
"The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) has paved the way for strong COP30 decisions to protect forests, recognising the critical role that Indigenous Peoples and local communities play, and breaking the siloes between biodiversity and climate action that is necessary to keep 1.5° within sight."
"Here in Belém we can make history, but that requires a commitment to ensure COP30 lives up to the opportunity it presents. That time is now."
