Oil Change International response to the 2025 NDC Synthesis Report
For immediate release
“Despite COP28 promises to phase out fossil fuels, this report highlights the discrepancy between commitments and action.”
28 October 2025 – Today, the United Nations published the 2025 NDC Synthesis Report, providing a snapshot of the barriers to a transition away from fossil fuels.
In response, Shady Khalil, Senior Global Policy Strategist at Oil Change International said:
“Despite COP28 promises to phase out fossil fuels, this report highlights the discrepancy between commitments and action. While countries promise to scale up renewable energy, very few countries are ending fossil fuel expansion or virtually none are committing to a full phaseout plan across all sectors of the economy. Unless countries live up to their legal obligations to provide public climate finance at a level that meets global needs and phase out fossil fuels – we will fail to avoid runaway climate change.
“The finance on the table after the NCQG decision is insufficient and technology transfer remains far below the scale needed. These challenges are intertwined: without non-debt-inducing climate finance and debt cancellation, the clean energy transition will remain impossible in many regions. The NDCs and the finance figures reaffirm the countries’ needs already far exceed the 2035 climate finance target agreed in Baku last year.”