Indigenous Youth Activist Reflects on ‘Surreal’ COP30 Climate Summit
Consensus rules and petrostate vetoes blocked key climate measures at COP30, prompting grassroots groups and countries like Colombia to pursue alternative climate action initiatives.
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COP30 Exposes the Limits of Consensus Climate Politics
The Belém summit revealed how petrostates, procedural vetoes, and hollow pledges are stalling fossil-fuel action—while emerging climate clubs and grassroots alliances quietly chart more credible pathways for decarbonisation and deforestation rollback.
These were some of the most relevant news from the Amazon region, climate change and COP30 this week: COP30 promised to save the planet from the jungle, but ended up paying little attention to both forest and climate science. Colombia led the cause against fossil fuels, but the great pretensions of environmentalists were left out, amid some achievements. Vice-President France Marquez led at the COP the struggle for the recognition of Afros in th…
The World Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Brazil was far below expectations and did not provide adequate answers to the increased demands: Despite the increasing global impact of climate change, no joint decisions could be taken in key areas, especially because central oil, gas and coal producing countries blocked concrete progress. Researchers at the Wuppertal Institute are now laying down their analysis [...] The post analysis report: COP…
AFN calls for Urgent and Transformative Climate Action Led by Indigenous Peoples following COP30: UN Climate Change Conference 2025
Summary: The AFN sent a delegation to the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP 30) for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Belem, Brazil, from November 10-21, 2025. COP 30 was an opportunity to advance the leadership of First Nations in addressing the global climate crisis. The AFN issued a position paper,
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