It is a global Emergency
The following paragraphs are the highlighted paragraphs from the joint statement. For the full text, please check the link below.
The climate crisis is no longer a danger of tomorrow, it is a present-day global emergency, fueling disasters, displacement, and conflict. Extreme weather, rising tensions over scarce resources, and climate-driven migration are accelerating across the world. Our demands arise from the urgent reality that human lives, peace, and ecosystems are already at risk. COP30 must respond with courage, urgency, justice, and decisive oaction worthy of this moment.
As the world prepares for COP30 (10–21 November 2025, Belém, Brazil), the Global Greens, a network of Green parties and movements from over 90 countries, and the Global Young Greens, a youth network for young greens and activists worldwide — call on governments, institutions, and corporations to meet this historic moment with courage, justice, and urgency.
The climate crisis is accelerating, and the political response must do the same, fully aligned with the latest IPCC recommendations and findings.
As the only global political movement uniting elected Greens, young leaders, and grassroots communities, we bring real governing power and lived experience from the frontlines of climate breakdown. With over 100 Green Parties, Members of Parliament across continents, and more than 90 youth organisations, our voice is backed by legislative influence, local leadership, and community-rooted action.
Despite years of engagement and clear scientific and moral demands, the COP process has too often fallen short, failing to ensure binding action, deliver climate finance and reparations, strengthen NDCs in line with 1.5°C, or fully implement the Paris Agreement. COP30 must mark the start of a decade of real transformation: ambitious and enforceable commitments, phase-out of fossil fuels, justice-centred finance, and resilient pathways for communities already facing loss and damage. As Greens, we are already shaping policy, governing cities and regions, and advancing ambitious climate action worldwide, and we expect COP30 to reflect the scale, justice, and urgency science and society demand.
Highlighted: Emergency-Level Emissions Reductions
We demand that all Parties strengthen ambition and credibility in line with the Paris Agreement and scientific reality. Governments must submit strengthened Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) aligned with limiting warming to 1.5°C.
We demand:
- Deliver updated NDCs that reflect the IPCC’s pathway of at least 45% global emissions reduction by 2030 compared to 2019 levels.
- Commit to a clear, fair and irreversible phase-out of all fossil fuels, including coal, oil and gas.
- Set binding methane and nitrous oxide reduction targets across sectors
- Comply with Paris Agreement obligations on ambition–
- Under Article 4.2, Parties must prepare, communicate and maintain NDCs
- Under Article 4.3, each NDC must represent a progression and reflect the highest possible ambition
- Under Article 4.9, Parties must submit new NDCs every 5 years without ambiguity or delay
- Deliver transparency and accountability, not just promises;
- Under Article 13, Parties must provide, National GHG inventories and Information necessary to track progress toward NDCs
- All Parties must submit Biennial Transparency Reports, as required under the Enhanced Transparency Framework
- Implementation must be measurable, verifiable and publicly accessible
- Prioritise equity, finance, and climate justice
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- NDCs must be backed by real finance, technology transfer and capacity-building
- Alignment with the Loss and Damage Fund and global finance commitments, including reparations for climate-vulnerable nations
- Policies must uphold human rights, Indigenous and community rights, and just transition principles
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- COP30 must be the end of delayed compliance and the beginning of enforceable implementation. Ambition without implementation is failure.
COP30 must mark a shift from voluntary pledges to verifiable delivery: strong, finance-backed NDCs, transparent progress reporting through Biennial Transparency Reports, and adherence to equity, human rights, and just transition principles. As Greens, we will continue to hold governments accountable to the Paris Agreement and to the people most affected by climate breakdown and we expect COP30 to meet this moment with courage, justice, and urgency.
Highlighted: A Just and Accelerated Energy Transition
We demand a just and accelerated energy transition that delivers clean, affordable energy for all. The world must rapidly phase out fossil fuels and build a 100% renewable, democratic, and community-centered energy system rooted in equity, human rights, and climate justice.
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- A global commitment to 100% renewable energy by 2040, with clear milestones for 2030
- Greens globally advocate full decarbonisation and renewable energy dominance, not partial or delayed targets
- Progress benchmarks must be transparent, science-aligned, and enforceable
- Aligned with the COP28 UAE Consensus and global call to “transition away from fossil fuels
- Public investment in decentralized, community-owned energy systems
- Supports the Paris Agreement emphasis on “sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty”
- Strengthen public finance and technology transfer (Paris Agreement Articles 9 & 10)
- No new fossil fuel infrastructure, including pipelines and LNG terminals.
- No new development of oil and gas wells or hard coal and lignite mines.
- Global moratorium on fossil expansion, consistent with IPCC pathways
- Prioritise fair, planned fossil phase-out strategies
- No more fossil fuel subsidies. Redirect public finance to clean energy, climate-resilient infrastructure, and just transition support.
- Renewable and decentralized electrification of regions that have little or no electricity
- Energy access as a human right and pillar of climate justice
- Deliver clean, reliable energy access as a core development right
- Consistent with UNFCCC principles of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR-RC)
- Prioritise Global South community energy sovereignty, capacity-building, and finance
- Truly just energy partnerships, multilateral and bilateral
- All agreements must respect human rights, Indigenous rights, and local community rights
- A global commitment to 100% renewable energy by 2040, with clear milestones for 2030
- Just transition must not come at the cost of harassment, displacement, or repression of Indigenous peoples or local communities
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- Transition must be community-centric: affected communities are decision-makers, not passive beneficiaries, not imposed models or extractive “green colonialism”
- Reflect the Paris Agreement’s Just Transition reference (Preamble) and the Glasgow Climate Pact commitment to a just transition
- Guarantee decent work, reskilling, and protection for affected workers and regions
- A transparent, fast, and fair decarbonisation process that protects workers and communities
- Investments in green skills, dignified work, and social protection
- No community or worker left behind, ensure just transition for fossil-dependent regions
We reject delayed or weakened transition pathways. We insist that COP30 delivers not just words but a roadmap to real transformation in the global energy system: binding commitments to phase out fossil fuels, massive scaling of renewables, radical democratisation of energy systems, and safeguards for justice, rights and community control.
Highlighted: Youth participation and generational justice
Young people, and children, are bearing the brunt of climate breakdown today and will inherit its greatest costs tomorrow. Yet they remain too often excluded from decision-making spaces, under-resourced and marginalised. COP30 must ensure youth and future generations hold real power, not just a seat at the table because climate justice is inter-generational justice.
We demand:
- Guarantee structured youth participation in all COP processes, with more than token representation.
- Ensure that young people, especially from under-represented, marginalised and Global South backgrounds, are supported by resources, financing, capacity-building and accessible accommodations (travel, visa, translation, accessibility for persons with disabilities) so their participation is substantive.
- Require all Parties to include youth delegates in their national delegations with negotiation mandates and voting/consultation roles, not only side-events.
- Require that Parties’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) integrate meaningful youth engagement, youth-led climate innovation, and children’s rights perspectives at national and international levels.
- Establish dedicated funding streams for youth-led and child-centred climate initiatives, especially in frontline, Indigenous and marginalised communities.
- UNFCCC to call upon all Parties to promote true inter-generational justice: create mechanisms ensuring children and youth have access to complaint, redress and participation processes in national climate governance
- Mandate youth-led monitoring and accountability mechanisms for climate action, young people should help review progress, highlight gaps and hold governments to account.
- Ensure that climate education, skills training and just-transition programmes explicitly include youth and children
- Support youth leadership in climate policy, recognise children’s rights and knowledge contributions, and provide safe spaces for youth from affected communities to lead.
- Prioritise the participation and leadership of youth and children from climate-disaster-affected regions, recognising their lived experience in loss, displacement, food insecurity, and interrupted education.
- Establish dedicated protections and programmes for young people facing climate-related livelihood loss, unemployment, and long-term mental health impacts, including trauma-informed climate responses and education continuity plans.
- Guarantee formal decision-making roles for affected youth in national climate action planning and at COP negotiations, ensuring those who live the consequences are co-architects of climate policy, not observers.
COP30 must move beyond symbolic gestures and make youth participation, children’s rights and generational justice central to climate governance. Young people are not just stakeholders, they are rights-holders and agents of change. This moment demands more than empty promises: it demands power, resources and equal voice for every generation.
For the full version of the Joint Statement from Global Greens and Global Young Greens, please click here.