Demand Climate Justice

MEDIA ADVISORY: Press Conference

11 November, 2026

Antalya, Turkey – False climate solutions are increasingly finding their way into COPs and at this year’s climate negotiations, there are attempts to use the cover decision to push them as a key part of the outcome. With the looming breach of 1.5C, rich countries are using the concept of overshoot to paint Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) as a solution, despite these technologies being unproven, costly, and dangerous. COP31, also dubbed the “ocean COP”, is seeing rich countries and corporations peddle false solutions like ‘ocean climate solutions’ and ‘ocean climate technologies’. Meanwhile, the push for electrification is opening the door to more false solutions like nuclear energy. 

Behind every one of these false solutions is more extraction, more land and ocean grabbing, more exploitation and threats to communities, and more excuses to delay climate action. And while corporations rake in billions in profits, communities are left holding the climate bill. 

Instead of relying on technological scams like CDR technologies, or geoengineering and nature-based solutions, Global North countries must phase out fossil fuels, cut their emissions, pay their climate debt, and centre Indigenous knowledge and community-led solutions that protect lands, forests, rivers and oceans.

Join us to hear from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) and allies members as they shed light on the Global North’s and big polluters tactics to use false solutions as a license to continue polluting and evade their obligations.

WHEN: 12 November 2026 | 11AM Antalya Time (8AM GMT) online link

WHERE: Press Conference 2, Area D4 (Livestream link)

WHO:

• Kwami Kpondzo, Global Forest Coalition
• Soumya Dutta, Friends of the Earth India
• Jax Bongon, IBON International
• Mary Church, Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL)

For interviews and other queries: 

Juliah Kibochi & Sidharth Pandey, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ)

juliah.dcj@gmail.com, sidharth.dcj@gmail.com 

Neha Gupta, Hands Off Mother Earth Alliance (HOME Alliance) comms@handsoffmotherearth.org

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11 November, 2026

Antalya, Türkiye

Indigenous Peoples, Climate justice groups, climate activists and campaigners from around the world came together at COP31 yesterday for a collective action exposing how false climate solutions create the illusion of climate action while allowing the extractive economic model driving the climate crisis to continue. 

Under the banner “No False Solutions, But Real Solutions”, the action challenged the growing promotion of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS/CCUS), marine geoengineering and Nature-based Solutions as climate responses, highlighting how these approaches risk legitimising continued fossil fuel expansion, commodifying nature, threatening ecosystems and undermining the rights of Indigenous Peoples and frontline communities. The campaigners called on governments to reject these false solutions and prioritise people-led, rights-based climate action rooted in systemic change, ecosystem restoration and a just transition away from fossil fuels.

Aakaluk Adrienne Blatchford, Indigenous Environmental Network said:

 “The oceans are the one thing that connect our lands. They help Sila, the weather and Universe have balance. The world is already experiencing that imbalance caused by industrialism and extractivism led by white supremacy, imperialism and the commodification of Mother Earth. As Indigenous people in the north, our cultural survival and food security are impartial to a healthy Arctic ecosystem that the world depends on to thrive. Rather than phase out fossil fuel and critical mineral extraction, we are seeing countries invest in false climate solutions like climate mitigation with marine geoengineering. They are also highly unregulated disasters waiting to happen. There is no replacement for clean water, air and lands and there is no wealth that can buy it back.”

Dana  Tarigan, WALHI Indonesia said: 

“As Nature based Solutions gain prominence ahead of COP31, we must be clear: protecting forests, mangroves, peatlands, and coastal ecosystems is essential for climate adaptation, biodiversity, and community resilience. We are increasingly concerned that Nature based Solutions are being used to greenwash destructive development projects. True Nature Base solutions should strengthen ecosystem resilience, protect community rights, and address the root causes of climate vulnerability. They must not justify projects that increase social inequality, or create new forms of carbon commodification and land grabbing. Nature can help us confront the climate crisis, but it cannot compensate for continued fossil fuel dependence. Climate solutions must serve people and ecosystems first, not carbon markets or megaproject interests.”

Ayumi Fukakusa, Friends of the Earth Japan said:

“CCS is not a climate solution. It is a lifeline for the fossil fuel industry. Carbon Capture and Storage is expensive, energy-intensive, and full of uncertainties. CCS allows the fossil fuel industry to keep extracting, burning, and profiting from coal, oil, and gas, while pretending to be part of the climate solution. It is greenwashing on an industrial scale. Powerful countries and corporations are turning other people’s territories into dumping grounds for their pollution.Communities in the Global South are once again being asked to bear the costs of a crisis they did not create, so that wealthy polluters can maintain their profits and their business as usual. We need real emission reductions at the source, a transition to renewable energy, and climate solutions led by communities, not fossil fuel corporations.”

Jax Bongon, IBON International said:

“For generations, all the world’s wealth and power have been concentrated in the hands of a privileged few, while millions are denied access to the land, food, water and resources they need to live with dignity. Meanwhile, decisions affecting entire communities and ecosystems continue to be made according to the interests of big corporations and the ruling few. Real Solutions signal a disruption to this. The foundation of people-powered climate action include communities reclaiming the power and resources to shape the conditions upon which their lives and livelihoods depend. This also means reorienting our understanding of our relationship with nature, in ways that recognise our interdependence with it. These solutions we want and speak of are already taking shape wherever people are building alternatives to destructive systems.”

Rachitaa Gupta, Global Coordinator, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice said: 

“False climate solutions like carbon capture and storage or marine geoengineering are a scam worth billions of dollars. It is a scam backed by some of the world’s biggest corporations, promoted by rich countries, and increasingly finding their way into COPs and climate policy. Instead of cutting emissions, ending fossil fuel expansion, and paying their climate debt, rich countries want to promote false solutions. Behind every one of these false solutions is more extraction, more land and ocean grabbing, more exploitation and threats to communities, and more excuses to delay climate action. And while corporations rake in billions in profits, communities are left holding the climate bill. We cannot rely on illusions – we need real people-led solutions that protect Indigenous Peoples rights, protect our lands, our forests, our rivers and our oceans.”

Action Photos and Videos 

1. Photo bank (Please Credit: Bianka Csenki, Artivist Network)
2. DCJ/HOME Alliance Video and Photo Bank

Additional Information

1. What are false climate solutions
2. Submission to OHCHR on CCS risks
3. CSO demands both the Japanese and Malaysian government not to promote CCS – Exporting CO2 from Japan to Malaysia is Carbon Colonialism
4. IBON International’s Opening Statement for COP31
5. Home Alliance COP31 Statement On Marine Geoengineering Experiments

For media enquiries please contact

Juliah Kibochi
Communications Coordinator, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ)
juliah.dcj@gmail.com

Neha Gupta 
Communications Coordinator, Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME) Alliance
comms@handsoffmotherearth.org

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COP31 (the 31st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), from November 8-20, 2026 in Antalya, Turkiye) calls attention to countries’ commitments for implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement. As collapsing glaciers unleash unfathomable flooding as seen now in Nepal, and imperialist aggression accelerates the global scramble to secure supplies of energy and critical minerals (all amid AI’s hyperscaled infrastructure build-out), climate justice advocates focus on the powerful actors’ avoiding any accountability for their legal commitments while we push forward our own proposals for fairness in implementation. If Antalya is to be about implementation and delivering on countries’ commitments, then we need to see Global North governments come clean on their unfulfilled legal obligations under the Paris Agreement’s Article 9.1, in which they agreed they “shall provide financial resources to assist developing countries”. 

DCJ stands in solidarity with Palestine and with the peoples across the world who have been on the receiving end of imperial wars, invasions, attacks to their sovereignty and their right to self-determination. We condemn the subjection of civilians to warfare for territory, natural resources, or religious conflict anywhere and everywhere. We stand in strong opposition to the perpetuation of human and environmental suffering across the world.  We commit to a solidarity not based in words but in actions. There cannot be emancipation and liberation with ongoing imperial and colonial capitalism, which must be our first priority to dismantle.

This context matters because climate negotiations are not politically neutral spaces. They are shaped by the same global inequalities that produced the crisis. The countries and corporations most responsible for climate breakdown continue to hold disproportionate power over the terms of climate action, while the peoples and communities most affected continue to fight for their rights and justice. Every major issue on the agenda for COP31, from climate finance, adaptation, loss and damage to just transition, fossil fuel phase-out, mitigation and false solutions, reflects a broader struggle over rights, responsibility, redistribution and the future of multilateralism.

We’ve been warned of Glacier Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) rates rising in both frequency and intensity along with today’s warmer temperatures and thawing permafrost. Now almost 1,500 Nepalese were killed, over 5,000 still missing and 15,000 rescued. Nepal has suffered one of the worst disasters in its recent history. Yet as the planet continues to warm, communities across the Himalayas face the threat of even more devastating catastrophes. That is, unless we urgently end fossil fuels expansion, rapidly reduce their use and quickly adapt while transitioning to new equitable economic systems aligned with natural limits. Until then, we must build more readiness among international institutions’ to responsibly avoid such catastrophes, let alone respond to and recover from more of them. 

Nepal’s disaster shows us that the Paris Agreement Finance Mechanism (including the new Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, Adaptation Fund and Green Climate Fund) are currently failing front line communities and entire countries across the Global South who are at the frontline of this crisis that did not create and often pushing them further into debt.

A concept note for a project to protect communities in Nepal from GLOFs was submitted to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in February 2018. The $36 million project was approved in July 2025, only seven years later, and commenced in March 2026. While the area struck by the August 2026 disaster is not included in the project, the slow approval process raises serious questions about the capacity of international climate finance to respond quickly to known and growing risks. Frontline communities need resources, safer infrastructure and early warning systems to prepare for disaster. They need the money while there is still time to prevent the loss of lives, livelihoods, culture, ways of living, and not after the damage has been done.

Across the world, not only now in Nepal, communities are confronting escalating climate impacts alongside deepening militarisation, debt crises, economic instability, shrinking civic space, rising authoritarianism and the continued concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a small number of states, corporations and financial actors. The climate crisis is unfolding not in isolation, but resulting from a global political order structured by histories and ongoing acts of colonisation, imperialism, racial capitalism, patriarchy, extractivism and the continued sacrifice of peoples and ecosystems in the pursuit of profit for a few. 

The ongoing genocide in Palestine, carried out by Israel with the military, political and economic backing of the United States and its allies, has laid bare the brutality and hypocrisy of the present international order. The destruction of Palestinian life, land, food systems, water infrastructure, energy systems, homes, hospitals, schools and places of worship is not only a humanitarian catastrophe. It is also a profound indictment of an international system that claims to uphold human rights, international law and multilateral cooperation while enabling impunity for occupation, apartheid and genocide. For climate justice movements, this moment demands political clarity that there can be no climate justice while genocide is normalised, while occupation is greenwashed, and while current economic systems driven by militarism and fossil fueled capitalism continue to destroy both peoples and ecosystems.

The relationship between militarism and the climate crisis is not incidental. Fossil fuels remain central to modern military power, geopolitical conflicts and domination, and global economic control. Military operations depend on oil, gas and petrochemical supply chains; fossil fuel revenues and infrastructure shape conflicts and geopolitical alliances; and the military-industrial complex absorbs vast public resources that could otherwise be directed towards climate finance, adaptation, public services and just transition. At the same time, war and occupation destroy the very ecosystems that communities need to survive climate impacts: land, water, food, healthcare, housing, energy and social infrastructure.

The Global South continues to bear the brunt of this injustice. Countries and communities that contributed least to the climate crisis are facing the most severe impacts while being denied the resources necessary to respond. Many developing countries are trapped in cycles of debt servicing, austerity and extractive dependency that restrict their ability to invest in adaptation, public services, food sovereignty, energy transition and resilient development. International financial institutions, unequal trade rules, intellectual property barriers and investor protections continue to constrain the policy space required for an ambitious climate action. In this context, calls for ambition that do not address finance, debt, technology and historical responsibility only become new forms of shifting burden.

COP30 in Belém created important openings, but it did not resolve these contradictions. The agreement to establish the Just Transition Mechanism (Belém Antalya Mechanism) represented a significant victory for developing countries, workers, Indigenous Peoples, feminist movements, youth, frontline communities and climate justice organisations. It reflected years of organising to ensure that transition is not reduced to market-led technological substitution but understood as a question of justice, rights, livelihoods and systems change. The roadmap process on transitioning away from fossil fuels also opened a political space to confront the root cause of the climate crisis. Progress on adaptation and related implementation processes created additional possibilities for advancing rights-based and peoples-centred climate action.

Yet COP30 also demonstrated the continued resistance of developed countries to fulfilling their obligations. Article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement, in which developed countries agreed that they “shall provide climate finance” to developing countries, continued to be contested and diluted. Adaptation and loss and damage remained underfunded. Fossil fuel interests and false solutions perpetrators continued to shape climate action. Carbon markets, offsets, carbon capture, financialised nature schemes and other mechanisms continued to be promoted as substitutes for real emissions reductions, public finance and system change. 

The outcomes of Belém therefore created both opportunities and risks. COP31 in Antalya is where many of these political battles now move from recognition to operationalisation. This distinction is critical. The fight after Belém is no longer only about whether Parties acknowledge the need for climate finance, just transition, adaptation, loss and damage or fossil fuel phase-out. It is about how those commitments are interpreted, governed, financed and implemented. 

Collapsing glaciers causing massive floods downstream now mark a new moment in today’s climate crisis, where treatment by international institutions of the impacted communities fighting for their own survival signals uncertain prospects for forthcoming climate finance. History shows that implementation is often where justice is diluted. Commitments secured through struggle can be narrowed through technical processes, weakened through procedural delays, captured by corporate interests or redirected towards market mechanisms. COP31 must therefore be approached as a political battleground over the future direction of climate action.

DCJ demands for COP31 are rooted in our clear understanding of climate justice:

1. Developed countries must fulfil their obligations under Article 9.1 and provide public, grant-based, predictable and adequate finance to developing countries.
2. Adaptation & loss and damage must be financed as matters of rights and reparative justice. 
3. Just Transition Mechanism (Belem-Antalya Mechanism or BAM) must be operationalised in ways that support systemic transformation across energy, food, care, labour, public services, critical minerals and development pathways. 
4. Transitions away from fossil fuels must be rapid, equitable, anti-extractivist and grounded in the political vision emerging from Santa Marta.
5. Article 6 and other false solutions must not be allowed to delay real action or create new markets for pollution and dispossession.
6. Mitigation must remain anchored in equity, CBDR-RC and means of implementation rather than becoming another tool for shifting burdens onto developing countries.

COP31 must also defend the integrity of climate multilateralism itself by:

• protecting civic space, ensuring meaningful participation of rights-holders and movements, and confronting corporate capture within the UNFCCC
• recognising that fossil fuel corporations, big polluters and actors cannot be allowed to define climate solutions or climate action;
• understanding that climate governance will lose legitimacy if it continues to treat demands of the peoples most affected as negotiable while protecting interests of people most responsible.

The climate crisis is often described as a crisis of emissions. It is that, but it is also far more. It is a crisis of colonial history, economic organisation, political power and moral accountability. Addressing it requires more than technical implementation. It requires reparations, redistribution, democratic participation, public finance, energy sovereignty, food sovereignty, gender justice, Indigenous sovereignty and the dismantling of the systems that have made both people and planet expendable.

This position paper sets out DCJ’s priorities for COP31 from that perspective. It is written in the understanding that climate justice will not be delivered through incremental adjustments to an unjust system. It will require confronting the structures that created the crisis and building pathways rooted in collective resistance and survival, feminist care, dignity and liberation. Systems change, not climate change.

Read the full position paper with detailed analysis and demands for all key negotiating topics here. You can also download it below

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11 November, 2026

Who’s Blocking Climate Finance in the Global North?

Antalya, Turkey – The International Court of Justice in last year’s landmark Advisory Opinion on the responsibilities of States with regard to climate change, clearly called the provision of public finance to developing countries, a binding legal obligation of developed countries, including for loss and damage. Yet the countries who got rich by exploiting the people of the Global South and plundering their resources continue to fail to provide the climate finance they owe  developing countries for their climate action. This includes their Nationally Determined Contributions, National Adaptation Plans and Technology Action Plans. At the same time they continue to pull every trick possible to avoid  any meaningful discussion about provision of public grant based climate finance at COP31.

Last year at COP30 in Belem governments agreed to begin a Climate Finance Work Programme to hold rich countries accountable to their obligations. However, the Global North not only continues to block progress at COP31, but has significantly reduced their climate contributions while increasing their military budgets and subsidising fossil fuels.

Join us to hear from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) members as they shed light on the reality of the political forces and the key actors whose tactics are not only derailing climate talks at Antalya but also worsening the climate crisis globally.

WHEN: 11 November 2026 | 11AM Antalya Time (8AM GMT) online link

WHERE: Press Conference 2, Area D4 

WHO:

• Laurie van der Burg, Oil Change International
• Leon Sealy Huggins, War on Want
• Niranjali Amerasinghe, ActionAid USA
• David Williams, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
• Victor Menotti, Moderator, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice

For interviews and other queries: 

Juliah Kibochi & Sidharth Pandey

juliah.dcj@gmail.com
sidharth.dcj@gmail.com 

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10 November, 2026

No Finance, No Future: The Battle at the Heart of COP31

Antalya, Turkey – At the heart of the heated debates going on at COP31, is the divisive issue of climate finance. Despite the urgency of the climate crisis as seen during Nepal’s recent climate disaster, Global North countries continue to block any progress on climate finance talks. Their claim? There’s no money for climate finance and their countries are already facing crises of their own such as the high cost of living.

But the figures tell a different story – money that could be used for climate finance is being spent on wars, militaries, and genocide. Global military spending hit a record US$2.89 trillion in 2025. By 31 July, 2026 the UN’s Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage had only received about US$486 million of the US$823 million pledged, while eligible funding requests totalled US$2.8 billion. For Nepal, the gap is already visible on the ground. At the same time the gap in Adaptation Finance sits at billions of dollars while the Global North continues to peddle mobilising private finance and carbon markets as alternatives to providing public climate finance.

Join speakers from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) as they unpack the key fights around climate finance and why it continues to be the linchpin in all negotiation rooms at COP31.

WHEN: 10 November 2026 | 11AM Antalya Time (8AM GMT) online link

WHERE: Press Conference 2, Area D4 

WHO:

• Lidy Nacpil, Asian Peoples’s Movement on Debt and Development
• Prayash Adhikari, Nepal, Peoples Movement for Climate Justice Nepal
• Ricardo Arnoldo Navarro Pineda, CESTA / Friends of the Earth El Salvador
• Rachitaa Gupta, Moderator, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice

For interviews and other queries: 

Juliah Kibochi & Sidharth Pandey

juliah.dcj@gmail.com
sidharth.dcj@gmail.com 

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Media Advisory: Press Conference

9 November, 2026

Antalya, Turkey – As the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) kicks off, the big question is: can COP31 really be the ‘implementation COP’ if climate finance continues to be a contentious issue?

Climate finance has been put front and centre with three new agenda items that are now being actively blocked by Global North countries while they continue to stall climate action by pitting science against equity. At the same time, Big Polluters are using the 1.5C overshoot to push for more false solutions while the future of the Just Transition Mechanism hangs in the balance.

Join speakers from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) as they unpack the major fights brewing within the negotiation rooms and highlight the key issues that the Global South will be raising and advocating during the two weeks of climate negotiations.

WHEN: 9 November 2026 | 11AM Antalya Time (8AM GMT) online link

WHERE: Press Conference 2, Area D4 

WHO:

• Meena Raman, Third World Network
• Lidy Nacpil, Asians’ Peoples Movement on Debt and Development
• Lise Masson, Friends of the Earth International
• Elodie Guillon, World Animal Protection
• Rachitaa Gupta, Moderator 

For interviews and other queries: 

Juliah Kibochi & Sidharth Pandey

juliah.dcj@gmail.com
sidharth.dcj@gmail.com

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Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) welcomes provisional allocation, raises concerns over delays in disbursing funds and inadequate levels of support for Nepal’s flood recovery efforts

23 October 2026 – In its first-ever Extraordinary Board Meeting, the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) approved a decision to set aside $21.6 million for Nepal’s recovery efforts.

Nepal will, however, not get the funding immediately. The Board has invited Nepal to submit a new funding request under the Barbados Implementation Modalities (BIM), the start-up phase of the FRLD. Before Nepal can access the funds, it must prepare a proposal and navigate existing approval processes for support to reach the affected communities.

While civil society members from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) welcomed the convening of the Board meeting, they expressed concerns over the lack of concrete and urgent action, including the lack of advancement of a rapid response or disbursement modality. DCJ warned this would hinder Nepal’s emergency response, adding that the delay raised questions on the Fund’s ability to respond rapidly, if at all.

Representatives of DCJ and its member organisations reacted to the decision:

*Note to editors: This page will be updated with additional quotes from DCJ members and allied organisations as they become available.

[Prayash Adhikari, Peoples Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ) Nepal]

“We welcome the historic decision but let’s be clear this is not enough and we have to scale up the Fund. Nepal receiving the support from FRLD marks a historic milestone, but the reality is that $21.6 million only covers just 0.45% of Nepal’s Bhotekoshi loss and damage, without accounting Non-economic Loss and Damage (NELD). To see a multilateral fund support climate impacted countries is a step in the right direction, but now it is time to scale up the Fund. The Fund must receive $1 trillion per year. Without increasing the capacity of the Fund, communities and countries will continue to suffer.”

[Arnab Chaudhary, All In Foundation/ Aalawya Foundation, Nepal]

“The Nepal disaster is fundamentally inequitable in that a country with only 0.1% of global emissions is bearing immense and tragic costs of climate crises.​ We not only lose our lives and livelihoods but also face irreparable loss of socio-cultural heritage with disproportionate impact on Indigenous Peoples, people with disabilities, and marginalised communities, particularly Dalits, who are at the frontline of the crisis. ​

Nepal is investing its scarce resources in climate adaptation, mitigation, and resilience, yet climate finance often deepens its debt burden. For every US$1 received as a grant, Nepal receives US$6 in loans. Countries that contributed least to this crisis should not have to borrow to survive it. These loans divert resources from health, education, and livelihoods, burdening future generations. Meanwhile, the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage remains terribly underfunded. We demand that developed countries urgently scale up new and additional grant-based climate finance, fulfill their commitments to the FRLD, and establish predictable, accessible funding commensurate with the real needs of affected communities. Climate justice must mean resources reaching frontline people, not debt passed to future generations.”

[Jinghann Hong, Third World Network]

“Setting money aside is not the same as getting money out the door. Disappointingly, the Board missed an opportunity to be more ambitious. It could have commissioned a loss and damage needs assessment to determine the true scale of support required. It could also have explored coordination with existing delivery channels like the Green Climate Fund-supported glacial lake outburst flood project in Nepal. That could have helped get resources flowing much faster to the affected communities.

It is inequitable to request a country in the midst of a climate crisis to prove its needs through yet another proposal before funds can be released. We hope the Board treats the Nepal case as an opportunity to build the access modalities that all developing countries and communities deserve – and turn expressions of solidarity into real support that reaches people when it is actually needed.”

[Brandon Wu, ActionAid USA]

“Handcuffed by a lack of resources, today’s extraordinary FRLD Board meeting ultimately did very little for communities in Nepal affected by the devastating floods in August. Three years after being established, the FRLD has yet to send any money to countries hit by climate impacts. Today’s meeting did not change this, nor did it provide a concrete timeline for disbursing money to Nepal.

The current delays are caused in part by genuine concerns about the fairness and procedural integrity of the FRLD. But these concerns stem primarily from the fact that rich countries have refused to provide money for the FRLD at any kind of reasonable scale. If the Fund were adequately resourced, an immediate disbursement to Nepal would be an absolute no-brainer. But it seems rich countries are terrified that the Fund – which has received a paltry $500 million to date – will run dry, thus putting more pressure on them to provide the money they owe.”

[Laurie van der Burg, Global Public Finance Campaign Manager, Oil Change International]

“This is an important step towards the first ever release of funding from the FRLD, but it’s far too little, far too late. The $21.6 million does not even come close to the $4.7 billion needed for Nepal’s recovery. Meanwhile, G7 countries continue to spend five times that amount – $25.7 billion – every year propping up fossil fuels with public money, worsening the very climate disasters, like Nepal’s glacial floods, that are already causing death and destruction. Developed countries must end fossil fuel subsidies, make polluters pay and support reforms to unfair debt, trade, tax and financial rules to free up trillions. This allows them to avoid cutting public spending at home, while at the same time delivering the climate finance they owe to the Global South.”

[Rachitaa Gupta, Global Coordinator, Demand Climate Justice]

“The board’s decision is only the first step in a critical journey to helping vulnerable countries tackle the impacts of a crisis they did not cause. Nepal estimates it needs over $4 billion to get back on its feet, and with the Fund woefully underfunded the country risks being pushed deeper into debt. Yet the very countries responsible for the climate crisis continue to fund wars and hand out fossil fuel subsidies instead of paying what they owe in climate finance. Nepal, like many other Global South countries, cannot continue to pay for the climate crisis with lives and livelihoods as the Global North shirks its responsibilities.”

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 17 October 2026- The 65th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been suspended without agreement on the timeline for its Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) or the budget for 2027.

At the heart of the disagreement is when the IPCC’s next major climate assessment should be completed. Many developed countries, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and some Least Developed Countries(LDCs) want the AR7 working Group reports completed by 2028, in time for the next Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement. Many other developing countries have emphasised the need for a timeline that allows meaningful participation and rigorous scientific review. Discussions on the budget are also linked to decisions on the timeline.

Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) emphasised the importance of both timely scientific assessments and an inclusive, transparent and member-driven process for reaching decisions.

‘Scientific urgency and equity must go hand in hand. Meaningful inclusion is not simply about funding an additional delegate to attend IPCC meetings. Developing countries must also have sufficient time and resources to engage with scientific literature, review the assessments and contribute meaningfully to the process. Without this, the inequalities in participation that already exist risk being perpetuated,” said Meena Raman, Deputy Director, Third World Network.

DCJ also reiterated its call for a rapid and equitable phase-out of fossil fuels, emphasising that urgent climate action cannot wait for the next IPCC assessment. 

“The urgency of climate action has not changed. We need climate science that is both timely and inclusive, and a process that gives developing countries a meaningful voice. The science is already clear on the need for rapid emissions reduction. Equity and historical responsibility require developed countries to do their fair share of global mitigation efforts by moving first and fastest in cutting emissions, while providing finance, technology and capacity-building support to developing countries,” said Rachitaa Gupta, Global Coordinator, Demand Climate Justice.

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