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 COP30 in Belém, Brazil in November 2025. 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 for all, one of the key priorities for the Brazilian presidency. A full, fast, fair and funded fossil fuel phase out as part of a just and equitable transition towards renewable energy, and a massive scale up of climate finance in line with the polluter pays principle, together with reform of the global financial architecture, are urgent and essential.
