Oil Change International COP30 Media Advisory – 14 November

14 November, Belém, Brazil – As the first week of COP30 wraps up and ministers arrive in Belém, negotiations continue on key issues that could define the outcome. Major progress on a just transition is key if COP30 is to be the ‘COP of truth’. Governments must prove they’re serious about a fast, fair, and funded transition. The G77 and China have come forward with a mechanism proposal that will enable conditions on a just and equitable energy transition. Discussions are underway for cooperation and leadership from developed countries. Currently, the EU is one of the major blockers for progress on this just transition mechanism along with critical enablers such as a dedicated focus on international public climate finance provision (Article 9) and an agreement to triple adaptation finance. Pressure is mounting for the EU to lead and not block real progress.

Meanwhile, more and more countries have expressed support for Minister Marina Silva’s call for a roadmap to guide the transition away from fossil fuels, though it remains unclear what this entails and the Colombian government is circulating a political Declaration on the topic. This work is critical, but cannot happen in a vacuum. For any roadmap to be successful, progress on public finance provision (Article 9.1) and other means of implementation is critical. Today’s Presidency event at 12:30 might give more clarity..

Today, the Kick Big Polluters Out Coalition published new findings revealing just how many fossil fuel lobbyists are present at the climate talks. More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists are attending COP30 — that’s one in every 25 people in Belém. These companies continue to drill, pollute, and profit from the destruction of our planet and communities. Fossil fuel executives are the arsonists of the climate crisis — they cannot be trusted to help extinguish the fire.

Today’s key events:

Press:

• Press Conference: Kick Out the Suits | 11:00 | Press Conference, room 2 and online
  • Representatives from UNFCCC constituencies will join climate justice activists, feminists, Palestinian activists, trade unions, and youth to react to the number of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP30. 

Events and Actions: 

• 8:00 – 9:00 ​Kick Big Polluters Out Action | in front of the COP30 venue 
  • Groups will release the number of fossil fuel lobbyists present at COP30. Hear from frontline, Indigenous, Global South, Palestinian, and other climate justice activists about the impact these fossil fuel lobbyists are having on climate action, and what must be done to ensure COP30 delivers.
• 12:30 – 13:45 Novel approaches to transition away from fossil fuels from what to how | Presidency event | Room Sao Francisco
  • Side event with COP30 presidency support bringing together the main initiatives on FFPO, including BOGA, CETP, COFFIS. More information. This event is where we’re expecting to get the most concrete announcement on transitioning away from fossil fuels. Please reach out to OCI spokespeople who are happy to discuss beforehand and share more details.
• 15:00 – 15:30 Stop Japan’s Dirty Fossil Finance action | Action Location 1, by meeting room 1
  • Join civil society groups and partners as they call on the Japanese government, financial organizations, private banks and entities to stop financing fossil fuel projects around the world. 
• 16:45 – 18:15 Kick Big Polluters Out side event: Protect! Reform! Deliver! Removing the stumbling blocks obstructing progress in climate action | Side Event Room 8, Area C
  • KBPO partners and experts will discuss the findings in more detail, and how to remove the stumbling blocks obstructing progress in climate action. 

Yesterday’s key events in case you missed them: 

• Report launch and press conference: Behind the Barrel: An Update on the Origins of Israel’s Fuel Supply, detailing the global fuel shipments that fuel Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The report tracks over 21 million tonnes of crude oil and refined fuels delivered to Israel from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, the US, among other countries. The report is available here.
• Fossil of the Day went to Japan for three strikes against climate justice – pushing fossil fuel lifelines, violating Indigenous rights and undermining a Just Transition. 
• Amazon Free of Oil & Gas action: “COP of Truth” Protest Demands Real Action to End Fossil Fuels and Deliver a Just Energy Transition. Press Release

Look out for tomorrow November 15, 2025: 

• People’s Summit Mobilization | Federal University of Belém (UFPA)
• High level dialogue: ensuring a secure energy transition away from fossil fuels | 16:30 | Room Madeira
• High level ministerial on climate finance | 10:00 | Meeting room 2, area D
• Financing the Energy Transition: From Fossil Fuel Incentives to Clean Energy Investment | 14:30 | SE Room 2

Look out for Monday, November 17, 2025: 

• Press Release: What the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) initiative may mean for tropical forests

Laurie van der Burg, Global Public Finance Campaign Co-Manager at Oil Change International said: 

“Five days into COP30 one thing is clear. The hangover of last year’s Baku climate finance negotiations is casting a shadow over the negotiations. If the EU wants to build bridges with developing countries, it must back their call for climate finance obligations to be met and support a dedicated focus on Article 9.1. Without this public money, there is no fast, fair and funded fossil fuel phaseout, no adaptation, and no just transition. The EU often claims climate finance leadership, but amid a new finance target that falls short, deepening aid cuts, rising military spending, and unfulfilled post 2025 climate finance pledges, developing countries are right to demand accountability.

“Meanwhile the EU overstates the role of private finance in covering the climate bill, even as evidence shows it fails to reach the technologies and countries most in need and worsens already unsustainable debt burdens. Instead, true leadership means unlocking public money for climate action: by ending over 100 billion euros in EU fossil fuel subsidies, supporting financial architecture reforms and making polluters pay.”

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, Article 2.1(c), 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

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