US EditionGlobal South Leaders Demand Climate Reparations at COP30
Global South nations highlight a $2.5 trillion climate finance gap and call for reparations as they face severe impacts despite low emissions, demanding justice at COP30.
- Demanding reparations, African leaders will use COP30 in Belém to press for a shift to non-debt climate finance instruments to address a $2.5 trillion shortfall, as official sessions run from November 10–21, 2025.
- After the Global Stocktake confirmed the world is drastically off-track, World Meteorological Organization data shows 2015–2025 will rank among the warmest years, with 2025's temperature 1.42°C above pre-industrial levels.
- Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama warned earlier this year, `When desertification encroaches and our villages become uninhabitable, we are forced to flee`, as northern Ghana faces droughts and erratic rainfall.
- Given adaptation shortfalls, international public adaptation finance was only $26 billion in 2023, while sub-Saharan Africa faces over $70 billion annual adaptation cost by 2030.
- Across the Global Week of Action, civil society groups urged a $5,000,000,000,000 annual down payment and systemic reform toward reparative public finance, framing climate finance as justice, not charity.
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After a year of talks, COP30 host Brazil on Wednesday laid out a plan to scale climate finance to $1.3 trillion a year and faced several early signs of the testing political backdrop as the Amazonian city of Belem prepares to welcome world leaders.
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World's biggest polluters are no-shows at start of UN climate summit in Brazil
Organizers are hoping this year's Conference of Parties — known as COP30 — will yield action to advance the many unmet promises laid out at previous such meetings. But the leaders of China, the United States and India will be notably absent from a gathering of heads of state over the next two days.
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