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CAN on Nakba 2025: stop the genocide, end the occupation and allow aid into Gaza
15 May 2025
Over two million Palestinians in Gaza are living in a forced famine, while the death toll has surpassed 52,000, due to Israel’s ongoing and ruthless actions since October 2023. Israel’s weaponisation, politicisation and militarisation of humanitarian aid is as unjust as its bombardment and illegal settlements of Palestinian lands, its vicious killings of aid workers […]
Gaza-Israel: Ceasefires must never be political bargaining chips
20 Mar 2025
In response to Israel’s brutal and unjustifiable breach of the Gaza ceasefire, Climate Action Network (CAN) has expressed outrage, urging global leaders to pressure Israel to comply with international humanitarian law and to stop the genocide against the Palestinian population. Tasneem Essop, Executive Director of Climate Action Network International, said: ”Israel’s flagrant violation of the […]
Energy Transfer: Sinister attack on Greenpeace, Climate Action Network member
20 Mar 2025
Climate Action Network, of which Greenpeace is a long-standing member, expresses solidarity with the environmental organisation in response to the deeply troubling outcome of Energy Transfer’s meritless lawsuit. Tasneem Essop, Executive Director of Climate Action Network International, said: “The lawsuit by Energy Transfer in the US against Greenpeace is a sinister attack by Big Oil […]
CAN renews call for release of Egyptian-British prisoner of conscience Alaa Abdel el-Fattah
27 Feb 2025
Alaa Abdel el-Fattah, the Egyptian-British blogger, writer and political activist, remains unjustly detained in Egypt despite serving his unjust five year prison term, after a trial that was described as marred by numerous fair trial and due process violations. Alaa went on hunger strike in 2022 during the United Nations climate talks in Egypt, COP27, and […]
Over 90% of countries fail to submit new NDCs by deadline
11 Feb 2025
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: As the official deadline passes for countries to submit their revised Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement, only 13 of the 195 parties have done so. Alarmingly, this group includes just five developed countries, which are required to lead the way on climate action. Under the Paris Agreement, every […]
CAN welcomes COP30 leadership announcement, calls for bold and urgent action
22 Jan 2025
Climate Action Network welcomes the appointment of Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago as President of COP30 and Ana Toni, Brazil’s Climate Change Secretary, as its Executive Director. These appointments bring experienced and respected leaders to the helm of the pivotal climate conference scheduled for November in Belém, Brazil. Ambassador Corrêa do Lago’s extensive expertise in […]
Gaza ceasefire must be the start of just and lasting peace
21 Jan 2025
This ceasefire must be the foundation of lasting peace for Palestine. Climate Action Network welcomes the implementation of a ceasefire in Gaza as a crucial first step towards ending the latest unimaginable suffering endured by civilians in the region. While the cessation of violence brings fragile relief, this ceasefire presents a critical opportunity for global […]
Betrayal in Baku: developed countries fail people and planet
23 Nov 2024
Climate Action Network wholeheartedly rejects the outcome of COP29 in Baku. The linchpin of the climate talks was public finance, and developed countries did not deliver despite their historic responsibilities. The figure for the climate finance goal is wholly inadequate, the quality of finance is missing with no equity or justice reflected in the text, […]
‘We are not fooled’: Civil society issues letter to Developed Countries, supports G77+China in rejecting latest NCQG draft text
23 Nov 2024
As negotiations continued into the night on the climate finance goal at COP29, civil society organisations representing millions of people across the world issued letters to Developed Countries and the G77+China. Addressed to the G77+China, and hand-delivered to Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Uganda to the United Nations, Adonia Ayebare, at the COP29 conference centre, […]
It’s a joke: too low, too long – CAN response to latest climate finance goal text
22 Nov 2024
Climate Action Network responds to the latest draft text for the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG): Tasneem Essop, Executive Director, Climate Action Network International, said: “This latest draft text on the New Collective Quantified Goal is not just a joke – it’s an insult to the people in the Global South living […]