Oil Change International COP30 Media Advisory

11 November, Belém – COP30 opened without the usual agenda fight and informal consultations are now underway. The COP Presidency must ensure these talks deliver concrete outcomes for a fast, fair, and funded just transition, focused on renewables, not rebranded polluting “sustainable fuels.”

As Super Typhoon Fung-Wong devastates the Philippines, the urgency couldn’t be clearer. Communities are already driving the transition, but it’s being stalled by a handful of rich Global North countries and fossil fuel companies clinging to a dying system and prioritizing fossil fuel profits over public benefits. Canada, the EU, the UK, Norway, Australia, and Japan must stop hiding behind the U.S. and show up with real proposals and finance.

At COP30, governments must prove they’re ready to move from commitment to implementation. A just, people-powered transition is within reach, and the time to choose sides is now.

This media advisory outlines: 

• Today’s key events:
  • Side events: 
    • 13:15 – 14:45 Reaffirming the need for public climate finance: no to false solutions, Side Event Room 5, Area C, Blue Zone
  • Actions: 
    • 13:00 Just Transition Cross-Constituency Action, Action Location TBD, Blue Zone
    • 16:30 Palestine Action, COP30 sign at entrance plaza before security, outside Blue Zone
• Yesterday’s key events in case you missed them: 
  • Launch of Shell Shocked Land – an Oil Change International and Health of Mother Earth Foundation documentary 
  • Op-ed by Romain Ioualalen, Global Policy lead at Oil Change International: The Planet Wreckers Are Holding the World Back; We Must Call Them Out at COP30

Shady Khalil, Global Policy Senior Strategist at Oil Change International, said: 

“Climate impacts are accelerating and so must our actions. The cost of delay is measured in lives. It’s time for rich countries like Canada, the EU, the UK, Norway, Australia, and Japan to start showing leadership commensurate with their responsibility. 

“The world is already moving but the countries that caused the climate crisis are blocking progress. The COP Presidency must push governments to deliver real outcomes for binding fossil fuel phaseout timelines, just transition policies, and financial support for the Global South. COP30 is the moment to choose: stand with people and the planet, or with polluters and profit.”

Spokespeople and areas of focus

At COP30, reach out to us to connect with spokespeople to cover: 

• Fair Fossil fuel phaseout: Fossil fuel phaseout roadmaps, Global North countries’ fossil fuel expansion, Nationally Determined Contributions, diplomacy and negotiations 
• Financing a just transition: Baku to Belém roadmap, NCQG, fossil fuel subsidies and finance, financial architecture reform, just transition 
• Industry and False Solutions: Industry pledges, Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter, IEA / WEO, CCS, False Solutions Subsidies, Kick Polluters Out, International Energy Agency and World Energy Outlook, 1.5ºC scenarios
• United States: Trump, U.S. Congress, U.S. finance and subsidies, false solutions and CCS, LNG, certified gas, Methane
• Africa: Resistance to oil and gas in Africa, oil and gas expansion in Africa
• Asia: Japan’s energy strategy, Japan’s gas and fossil fuel-based technologies (ammonia/hydrogen co-firing, CCS) expansion in Asia

OCI has spokespeople available on the ground at COP30 for interviews and press panels, as well as remote spokespeople available in alternative timezones for those journalists not in attendance in Belém

We will deliver daily media advisories with the most important updates from COP30 on fossil fuel phaseout, fair finance for a just transition, and expert insight on the negotiations.