Belém, Brazil, 6 November 2025 – Greenpeace has called on world leaders meeting at the  Climate Summit in Belém to send a clear signal to delegates at COP30 that the time has come to bridge the 1.5°C ambition gap.

Carolina Pasquali, Greenpeace COP30 Head of Delegation and Executive Director, Greenpeace Brasil said:

“We’re on the brink of climate tipping points and the potential loss of the Amazon, so this COP simply must deliver the urgent change needed. There’s no second chance and it starts with the leaders, who must give COP30 a clear mandate to close the 1.5°C ambition gap.

Brazil invited the world to Belém, to witness the challenges and opportunities of a COP on the frontlines of climate change and forest loss. It is also where we have the solutions and the knowledge of Indigenous Peoples to change our future. Together with communities and people, we are here to ensure leaders feel the heat and pressure – symbolically and literally – in order to act now, eliminate fossil fuel use and end forest destruction. It starts here in Belém.“

In Belém at COP30, Greenpeace is calling for [1]:

  • A Global Response Plan to address the 1.5°C  ambition gap and accelerate emissions reductions in this critical decade
  • A new, dedicated 5-year Forest Action Plan to end deforestation by 2030
  • Progress on public climate finance from developed countries, including polluter-pays taxation to support mitigation, adaptation and action to address loss and damage in developing countries

Even before the Leaders Summit, however, the EU proposed to cut emissions by 90% including offsets by 2040 compared to 1990, a climate target that falls significantly short of even the minimum that the EU’s own scientific advisers have called for. [2]

Jean-François Julliard, Executive Director, Greenpeace France said:

“Urgent action is needed, not ongoing talks or watered down targets. The time to ramp up action and ambition is now, and the EU needs to set the tone in Belém for COP30 to reach the outcome the world needs.

As historical emitters and in the Paris Agreement anniversary year, the spotlight is squarely on both France and the EU to lead from the front. Every EU leader is on notice: the 1.5°C limit is severely under threat and a potential overshoot looms. To President Macron and the EU, it’s your move next and only a global response plan will suffice.“

Dr Oulie Keita, Executive Director, Greenpeace Africa said:

“Belém must turn the 1.5°C limit from a slogan into a path to phasing out fossil fuels, but also an action plan to end forest destruction by 2030, including scaled-up financing that actually reaches the frontlines. A Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) that delivers equitable and timely payments to tropical forest countries with at least 20% flowing directly to indigenous people and local communities across the Amazon, Congo Basin and Indonesia can become an important new mechanism to help close the finance gap but should come on top, not instead of existing climate and biodiversity commitments. Africa cannot transition on debt. Financing must flow to those who protect the world’s last intact ecosystems, not to institutions that profit from their destruction. No more delays that cost lives.

1.5°C will be won or lost on energy finance. Leaders must commit to a debt-free, public finance package that triples distributed renewables and strengthens grids across Africa, not more loans for stranded fossil assets. End new oil and gas licensing, phase out subsidies, and channel polluter-pays revenues into community power. Energy access and climate ambition are the same fight.“

ENDS


Notes:

[1] Media briefing on Greenpeace’s political demands for COP30

[2] Environment ministers botch EU climate targets

Contact

Ibrahima Ka NDOYE, International Communications Coordinator Greenpeace Africa, [email protected] / +221778437172