Bel\u00e9m, Brazil, 6 November 2025 – Greenpeace has called on world leaders meeting at the Climate Summit in Bel\u00e9m to send a clear signal to delegates at COP30 that the time has come to bridge the 1.5\u00b0C ambition gap.<\/p>\n\n
Carolina Pasquali, Greenpeace COP30 Head of Delegation and Executive Director, Greenpeace Brasil said:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n In Bel\u00e9m at COP30, Greenpeace is calling for [1]<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n 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\u2019s own scientific advisers have called for. [2]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Julliard, Executive Director, Greenpeace France said: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n Dr Oulie Keita, Executive Director, Greenpeace Africa said:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n ENDS<\/p>\n\n [1] Media briefing on Greenpeace\u2019s political demands for COP30<\/a><\/p>\n\n [2] Environment ministers botch EU climate targets<\/a><\/p>\n\n
\n\n Brazil invited the world to Bel\u00e9m, 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 Bel\u00e9m.“<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
\n\n 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\u00b0C 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.“<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
\n \n 1.5\u00b0C 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.“<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
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