This document provides recommendations for parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and to the Paris Agreement which would help put human rights front and centre of all climate action and decision making at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan in November 2024. To do so will result in more effective and more sustainable outcomes; remedies for unavoidable harms; reductions in historic inequalities often stemming from racist and colonial legacies; and will point the way towards climate justice. A massive scale up of climate finance in line with the polluter pays principle and the obligation to provide international cooperation and assistance together with global tax reform and debt restructuring is key to this transformation and is the collective focus of the climate justice movement, of which Amnesty International is part, ahead of COP29 – dubbed by some as the “finance COP”.
Index Number: IOR 40/8022/2024