COP30 faces an ambition gap, an implementation gap, and a finance gap to keep 1.5°C alive and deliver what is required in the Paris Agreement.
COP30 must provide the high-level political response necessary to get the world on track, but this cannot be a technocratic solution, instead a focus on better lives for everyone must be at the heart of the global transition. This requires scaling up public finance and progress on just transition to deliver fair and inclusive global action that benefits communities, including those most often left behind, both in the UK and around the world.
COP30 is a crucial moment for this multilateral process that impacts on all our lives.
CAN-UK’s key demands for COP30:
- 1.5°C Alive: A Heads of State statement recognising and committing to close the ambition gap to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C, and a COP30 global response plan to address this based on equity, urgency, and science.
- Just Transition: A Belém Action Mechanism agreed to coordinate, learn, and implement just transitions nationally, regionally, and globally, that are inclusive of everyone.
- Adaptation: An ambitious Global Goal for Adaptation outcome with implementation supported by a new global adaptation finance commitment building on the doubling commitment ending this year.
- Nature: Concrete outcomes to progress the commitment to halt and reverse deforestation and degradation by 2030, and to enhance synergies across the Rio Conventions.
- Gender and Inclusion: Agreement of a robust new Gender Action Plan that will deliver gender-just, gender-transformative, and inclusive climate action, to ensure no one is left behind.
- Finance: Demonstration of increasing provision of climate finance including new commitments from the UK and other countries with commitments ending, concrete progress on new sources of finance from polluter pays measures, increased contributions to UN Climate Funds, and greater action on achieving a balance of finance for adaptation, in the context of wider justice-based reform of the financial architecture.
Read CAN-UK’s COP30 briefing here to find out more about what’s at stake at COP30 and what role the UK government can play.
