Oil Change International COP30 Media Advisory – November 17
For immediate release
As COP30 Enters Week Two, Pressure Mounts for Real Action on Just Transition, Fossil Fuel Phaseout Roadmap, and Financial Architecture Reform
November 17, Belém, Brazil – As week two of COP30 begins, pressure mounts on ministers arriving in Belém to deliver breakthroughs on a just, fast, and fully funded transition. Week one wrapped with critical signals: including the EU moving closer to supporting a just transition mechanism and the call for a fossil fuel phaseout roadmap proposed by Minister Marina Silva gaining momentum.
Last night, the Brazilian Presidency put forward a summary of the consultations it conducted on key issues without a home in the formal agenda and laid out a number of positive options on fossil fuel phaseout and economic transformation, which must go hand in hand for COP30 to deliver real progress.
Whether COP30 becomes the ‘COP of truth’ will depend on what happens this week. Developed countries have been facing growing criticism for blocking progress, both on the just transition mechanism and on key enablers like tripling adaptation finance and delivering public finance under Article 9.1 as well as on its lack of clarity on fossil fuel phaseout. As Colombia circulates a political declaration on fossil fuel phaseout and over 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists flood the talks, the stakes couldn’t be clearer.
This is crunch week. Ministers must choose: lead or let another COP pass with more talk than action. Anything is still possible, but the window for real progress is closing fast.
Today’s key events:
Press:
- 70+ Organizations at COP 30 Call on Governments Worldwide to Establish Fossil-Free Zones to Protect Forests and Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.
- More information: Press Release and Letter
Events and Actions:
- 8:30 Action on the Belem Action Mechanism | Blue Zone, Area D | Action Location 1 (across from Information & Services Hub, next to Meeting Room 1)
- 11:00 – 11:30 Action ‘K-POP or K-FLOP? No more fossil financing!’ | Action Location 1 (across from Information & Services Hub, next to Meeting Room 1)
- 12:00 – 12:30 Action response to 1600 fossil fuel lobbyists at COP30 | Action Location 3 (outside UNFCCC offices + Press Conference Room 2)
- 13:00 Action on Adaptation Finance Now | Blue Zone, Area D | Action Location 1 (across from Information & Services Hub, next to Meeting Room 1)
- 13:15 – 14:45 Women for Climate Justice Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis | Side Event Room 5 | Blue Zone
- 14:30-15:00 Global Advocates Demand Funded Fossil Fuel Phaseout, Just Transition. Global grassroots climate advocates and Indigenous leaders calling for a funded and fair phaseout of oil, gas, and coal will stage a demonstration with the message: “End Fossil Fuels: Funded, Fast, Fair.” Blue Zone, Area D | Action Location 1 (across from Information & Services Hub, next to Meeting Room 1)
- 18:00 – 18:30 Fossil of the Day | Area D, Blue Zone | Action Location 1 (next to Meeting Room 1)
Look out for tomorrow November 18, 2025:
In case you missed it:
Declaration of the People’s Summit Towards COP30
The Peoples’ Summit Declaration calls for global unity against capitalist-driven climate destruction, imperialism, and systemic injustices, demanding indigenous rights, environmental and social justice, feminist values, demilitarization, and a just, people-led ecological transition rooted in ancestral knowledge and territorial sovereignty.
OCI and partner’s mid-COP analysis of the discussions on aligning financial flows with climate and development goals (Article 2.1(c) of the Paris Agreement). Negotiators are now discussing whether or not to continue a dialogue after wrapping up three years of dialogue. At “Implementation COP”, the real question is how more dialogue will actually lead to a shift in financial flows and a financial system capable of supporting climate action and development.
Bronwen Tucker, Global Public Finance Co-Campaign Manager at Oil Change International said:
“Brazil has put ambitious options on the table for a fair fossil fuel phaseout, public climate finance and economic transformation. We need these to go hand in hand for COP30 to deliver a just transition to the fossil free future we need for survival. Now it’s up to countries, especially the rich Global North producers most responsible for the climate crisis, to back the strongest, most action-oriented proposals, including wealthy countries delivering on their climate finance obligations, a serious scale-up of adaptation finance and just transition support. We cannot afford another year of dialogues and consultations packed with niceties while leaders dodge and sideline hard decisions. This is the moment to take decisive action. The question now is: will governments lead the shift, or stand in the way of the just future their people demand?”
Spokespeople and areas of focus
At COP30, reach out to us to connect with spokespeople to cover:
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- 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
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.
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