Briefing for UN Climate Change Conference SB64

June 2026

Summary of Demands

Chapter 1: Towards a Climate-Resilient Future

1.1 Adaptation

• Developed countries must signal commitment to at least triple adaptation finance by 2035, primarily through public grant-based finance, and agree on a delivery plan
• Parties must advance the Baku Adaptation Roadmap (BAR) especially on how they will operationalize Means of Implementation particularly adaptation finance for implementing Global Goal on Adaptation. Additionally parties must agree on BAR workshop themes (including dedicated sessions on MoI), modalities for inclusive participation, and a process to capture discussions
• Parties must agree on modalities for the Belém-Addis Vision taskforce, ensuring one representative per rights-based constituency (with Global South emphasis), formal consultation on composition, and a mandate to test indicators, report on best practices, and address MoI for the relevant indicators
• Parties must define policy alignment as integrating climate action into national development, highlighting failures and barriers, and not exclusively as administrative convenience
• Discussions must include how operating entities (such as GCF, GEF, AF) will support developing countries to implement the UAE Framework, with the Adaptation Fund aligning its readiness programmes with GGA indicators by COP32.

1.2 Agriculture

• The SSJW workshop on MoI must prioritize grant-based finance for smallholder and women farmers, promote agroecology, address land governance, and exclude debt-creating loans.

1.4 Ecosystems

• The COP30 Presidency Roadmap on forests must ensure civil society and rights-holder engagement, ground action in human rights and IP/LC self-determination, and include recommendations on land rights, just transition, addressing forest degradation, and scaling direct public finance for IPs/LCs.
• The Ocean Dialogue must rule out marine geoengineering, protect ecosystem integrity and rights of IPs/fishers, and produce an actionable roadmap integrated into UNFCCC processes.

1.5 Loss & Damage

• Establish a permanent COP agenda item on Loss & Damage to ensure political space, oversight of the FRLD, and scaled-up grant-based finance.
• Ensure the L&D gap report assesses the funding gap, impacts on human rights with disaggregated data, and includes innovative polluter-pays revenue sources (e.g., luxury flight levies) in the FRLD’s Resource Mobilisation Strategy.

Chapter 2: Just Transition

• Work towards a COP31 decision that operationalizes the Just Transition Mechanism (BAM) with: a mandate rooted in COP30 JT principles; capability to mobilize concrete resources for JT strategies; and an adequate role for rightsholders in key bodies.
• Anchor qualitative finance discussions within the JTWP, linking them to BAM functions to identify what finance, under what conditions, can deliver a Just Transition.

Chapter 3: Climate Finance

3.1 The Work Programme on Climate Finance (including on Article 9.1) must

• Provide clarity on NCQG implementation (public provision, tripling UNFCCC fund outflows by 2030).
• Center developing country financial needs, scale adaptation finance, and address L&D and JT.
• Explore pathways to high-quality climate finance (polluter-pays taxation, without substituting Article 9.1 obligations) and assess risks of private finance conditionalities and debt.
• Ensure a party-driven process with observer engagement, complementarity with other tracks, and concrete outcomes to inform GST-2 and NCQG implementation.

3.2 The Veredas Dialogue (Article 2.1c) must

• Centre CBDR-RC: Article 2.1c cannot substitute for public finance under Article 9.1; address structural inequities (debt, tax, trade).
• Provide realistic estimates of private finance limitations; assess harmful role of debt and climate-debt cycles.
• Drive tangible action to end fossil fuel subsidies, prioritizing production phase-outs.

3.3 The 40th Standing Committee on Finance meeting must

• Transparently present different definitions and methodologies related to the US$ 100 billion delivery report and avoid political determination of adequacy.
• The 7th Biennial Assessment must integrate data from developing countries and civil society on effectiveness and contextualize methodological changes.

3.4 The Work Programme on Article 9 must

• Provide disaggregated reporting between provision (Article 9.1) and mobilization (9.3), and across mitigation, adaptation, and L&D.
• Demonstrate implementation of NCQG para 16 (delivery channels) and para 14 (Article 2.1c).
• Establish common understanding of “new and additional”; communicate strategies to lower access barriers.

Chapter 4: Ambition and Accountability

4.1 People-Centered Energy Transition Roadmaps

• Parties must develop national People-Centered Energy Sovereignty Roadmaps (beyond fossil fuels) that are science-based, JT-aligned, and co-designed with affected communities; and developed in a manner that they feed into the COP30 Presidency initiative on the roadmap for a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels

4.2 Accelerating Mitigation Ambition

• NDCs must respond to GST guidance, be holistic and equitable; countries must speed up implementation without false solutions.
• NDC Features discussions should include how GST outcomes are incorporated.
• BTR review must create spaces for interaction with civil society and constituencies.
• MWP review must strengthen linkages between Global Dialogues and contact group negotiations to feed into COP outcomes.

4.3 Market and Non-market Approaches

• CAN rejects the practice of carbon offsetting and its use in meeting national climate action commitments; Article 6.2 Ambition Dialogue must critically examine current risks to NDC ambition with diverse observer representation.
• Article 6.4 rules must prioritize climate integrity and safeguards over market actor financial goals.

4.4 The GST-UAE Dialogue

• Focus of the first UAE Dialogue must be on three priorities: aligning policies with emissions cuts; transformative adaptation; securing carbon sinks with IP/LC stewardship.
• The Adaptation cluster must assess resilience deficit and address structural inadequacy of adaptation finance, with findings feeding into finance roadmap, work programme, and BAR workshops.
• The participation framework must include dedicated observer speaking slots and prioritize frontline communities; co-facilitator reports must be analytical on gaps and needs.
• Support GST People’s Assemblies as a complementary deliberative mechanism feeding into GST-2.

4.5 The Annual NDC-GST Dialogue must

• Depart from panel format to deliberative formats (e.g., World Cafés) with panellists from frontline communities and constituencies.
• Critically reflect on NDC 3.0 alignment with 1.5°C trajectories, transitioning away from fossil fuels, and rejection of carbon offsets as substitute for domestic action.
• Secretariat reporting must provide analytical depth to inform UAE Dialogue, work programmes and processes related to climate finance, and the GST-2 design.

Chapter 5: Effective Multilateralism

5.1 Enhancing multilateral synergies

• Noting that 2026 is a three COP year, CAN urges an increase alignment between UNFCCC and other Rio conventions (UNCBD and UNCCD) using COP30 Presidency roadmaps on forests and transitioning away from fossil fuels to identify structural barriers.

5.2 AIM and observer participation

The UNFCCC Secretariat and Parties must:

• Establish open dialogue on issues including UNFCCC process, conflicts of interest, and observer access with meaningful and consultative participation of Parties, Secretariat, and observer constituencies.
• Ensure transparency of badge allocation, regional balance in accreditation, observer access to negotiation rooms, and prioritization of speaking slots.
• Address logistical barriers and increase funding for participation; establish a unified digital visa system with guaranteed one-week approval.

5.3 Curbing corporate capture

The UNFCCC and Parties must:

• Recognize the need to end undue influence of fossil fuel and polluting industry representatives from official spaces
• Adopt a rigorous UNFCCC Accountability Framework for engagement with non-governmental organizations and end commercial partnerships with polluting industries.

5.4 Civic space and freedom of expression

• The UNFCCC Secretariat and host countries must guarantee timely visas, protect freedom of expression and the right to peaceful protest, and recognize the work of Environmental Human Rights Defenders (including through establishing a Secretariat focal point).
• Future HCAs (including for COP31) must include binding human rights protections and be published promptly.
• Parties must meet financial commitments to prevent budget cuts from restricting participation.