The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has reached a critical breaking point. Climate negotiations have systematically failed to deliver climate justice and undermined international law, from marginalizing vulnerable States, Indigenous Peoples, and civil society, to allowing the richest countries and the largest historical polluters to avoid legal obligations and accountability. The massive expansion of COPs has not translated into better and more inclusive decisions, to the contrary: it has further opened the door for the fossil fuel industry and other major emitters,
allowing them to continue polluting with impunity and proposing costly illusions to greenwash their image. To add fuel to the fire, climate talks have been hosted in countries with problematic human rights records and significant fossil fuel interests. Global climate governance is increasingly perceived as out of touch, driven by vested interests, and running out of
relevance and trust.
This joint statement signed by over 200 civil society rganizations including Amnesty International, offers proposals for an urgent,
and comprehensive change of pace and process within the UNFCCC and complementary action outside of it.