US EditionGlobal South Leaders Demand Climate Reparations at COP30
China’s $225 billion manufacturing investments since 2011 boost renewable adoption in Global South as developing countries seek affordable energy amid limited climate finance.
- 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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Flash Vector/ShutterstockWorld leaders gather for the UN climate summit (Cop30) in Belém, Brazil, amid concerns about the slow progress in cutting global carbon emissions. Ten years into the historic Paris climate agreement, we are off track to meet its core objective, to keep global warming well below 2°C, relative to pre-industrial levels. Yet there are glimmers of hope, and none more important than the astounding progress on renewable energy.…
Brazil launches plan to scale climate finance to $1.3 trillion a year
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.
The UN warns of a global water crisis that affects more than 2 billion people while COP30 must define funding and road map for SDG 6. The rise in temperatures, population growth and economic development have led to an increase in water demand over the last hundred years, a resource that is scarce because of droughts or is more degraded by pollution and that lacks more than 2 billion people in the world. These are issues that will be on the table…
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