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1,000 organisations call for a people‑centred Just Transition at COP30
10 Nov 2025
Biggest coordinated appeal to turn promises into real‑world change More than 1,000 organisations from 106 countries – spanning trade unions, Indigenous leaders, feminist and youth movements, Afro‑descendant and peasant groups, environmental advocates, disability networks and community organisations – have united to urge governments to stop treating climate action as a numbers game. Their open letter […]
COP30: CAN Rejects Belém 4X Pledge on Sustainable Fuels as Credible Pathway to Just Transition
10 Nov 2025
Climate Action Network rejects the Belém 4X Pledge on Sustainable Fuels, which is co-sponsored by Brazil, Italy and Japan and supported by India. The pledge calls on countries to expand dubious “sustainable” fuels use globally by at least four times 2024 levels by 2035. The fuels promoted in the pledge include hydrogen and its derivatives, […]
COP30 Must Deliver Justice or Risk Credibility
10 Nov 2025
As COP30 opens, civil society warns that the world is at a crossroads: either deliver justice and equity, or watch the credibility of the UN climate process collapse. Climate Action Network (CAN), representing over 2,000 organisations in more than 130 countries, is calling for a course correction rooted in fairness, rights, and real finance. The […]
Rich countries are breaking their 1.5°C obligation: CAN study finds no credible commitments to fossil phase-out, finance, or Just Transition in new Climate Plans.
24 Oct 2025
CAN International calls for strengthened plans by COP31 Developed countries’ latest national climate plans (NDCs 3.0) expose a stark truth: those most responsible for the climate crisis are still refusing to lead its solution. A new analysis by Climate Action Network (CAN) International finds that every developed economy fails all three tests of a fair […]
Revealed: The hidden injustices of the transition to renewable energy
14 Oct 2025
A new report exposes how the transition to renewable energy is systematically overlooking people’s needs and rights, as well as countries’ sovereignty. The study, which analyses recent developments in 16 countries, finds that the current transition is failing to be just and equitable, prioritising profits over people, and de facto replicating the same old injustices […]
A Global Call for Equity in Mineral Value Chains at COP30
13 Oct 2025
As world leaders gather in Brasilia for the Pre-COP meetings, more than 200 civil society organizations from around the world are issuing an open letter to Parties to the UNFCCC calling for governments to put transition minerals and the communities affected by their extraction at the heart of climate negotiations. They ask negotiators to recognize […]
CAN condemns illegal Israeli aggression against the Global Sumud Flotilla and its activists
2 Oct 2025
Climate Action Network condemns Israel’s illegal interception of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters on October 2nd 2025, and the subsequent abduction of the activists on board.
CAN stands in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza
30 Aug 2025
Climate Action Network fully condemns the Israeli killings of Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa, and their assistant Mohammed Noufal, and calls for an immediate end to the ongoing targeting of journalists who are protected in terms of the Geneva Convention.
CAN condemns Israeli assassinations of Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza
11 Aug 2025
Climate Action Network fully condemns the Israeli killings of Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa, and their assistant Mohammed Noufal, and calls for an immediate end to the ongoing targeting of journalists who are protected in terms of the Geneva Convention.
UN Secretary-General seizes the Just Transition moment
22 Jul 2025
In response to the ‘Moment of Opportunity’ speech today by the UN Secretary General, and the associated energy report, Climate Action Network welcomes the meaningful mention of the need for a Just Transition. The renewable energy transformation is here and it is unstoppable, as Mr. Guterres stated today, but without effort and political will, this […]