[{"_id":"project-settings","settings":{"translateMetaTags":true,"translateAriaLabels":true,"translateTitle":true,"showWidget":true,"isFeedbackEnabled":false,"fv":1,"customWidget":{"theme":"dark","font":"rgb(255,255,255)","header":"rgb(0,0,0)","background":"rgba(0,0,0,0.8)","position":"right","positionVertical":"bottom","border":"","borderRequired":false,"widgetCompact":true,"isWidgetPositionRelative":false},"widgetLanguages":[],"activeLanguages":{"es":"Español","en":"English"},"enabledLanguages":["en","es"],"debugInfo":false,"displayBranding":true,"displayBrandingName":true,"localizeImages":false,"localizeUrls":false,"localizeImagesLimit":true,"localizeUrlsLimit":true,"localizeAudio":false,"localizeAudioLimit":true,"localizeDates":false,"disabledPages":[],"regexPhrases":[],"allowComplexCssSelectors":false,"blockedClasses":false,"blockedIds":false,"phraseDetection":true,"customDomainSettings":[],"seoSetting":[],"translateSource":false,"overage":false,"detectPhraseFromAllLanguage":false,"googleAnalytics":false,"mixpanel":false,"heap":false,"disableDateLocalization":false,"ignoreCurrencyInTranslation":false,"blockedComplexSelectors":[]},"version":7455},{"_id":"en","source":"en","pluralFn":"return n != 1 ? 1 : 0;","pluralForm":2,"dictionary":{},"version":7455},{"_id":"outdated","outdated":{"#COP30 delivered a handful of necessary and hard-won advances through sustained pressure from communities and movements on the frontline of the crisis as throughout the talks, the Global North, particularly the EU and the UK, deployed delay tactics, blocked progress, threatened walk-outs, and worked aggressively to shift responsibility onto Global South countries.":1,"#Belem, Brazil":1,"#22nd November 2025":1,"#As COP30 nears its endpoint, we share what governments really need to do: Kick Big Polluters Out. Reset the system. And justly end the fossil fuel era.":1,"#STATEMENT: COP30 clock winds down — our closing thoughts - Corporate Accountability":1,"#The decision to develop a just transition mechanism is a crucial win for workers and communities and shows the power of civil society organising. But to make the just transition happen we need public finance backing, systemic economic reform, and a clear roadmap to end fossil fuels. Rich countries at COP30 have done everything in their power to dilute their financial obligations, refuse to pay their climate debts, and undermine the necessary deep structural changes to a climate and development finance architecture that has thus far failed to deliver justice. Global South countries cannot act on climate within a system of debt, tax and trade governance that is stacked against them and traps them in cycles of debt, dependency, austerity and extractivism. In response, rich countries have been peddling false finance solutions – from debt swaps to private finance for adaptation – and pushing unaccountable, undemocratic international financial institutions to the centre. Multilateral development banks’ failed “billions to trillions” agenda and community-bulldozing “green” infrastructure projects, together with the IMF forcing debt-burdened countries into climate denying pathways and greenwashed austerity, will not deliver a just transition. We need rights-based, gender-responsive, people-centred climate and development action, and a global finance architecture that enables this.":1,"#Friederike Strub, Climate Finance Campaigner, Recourse, said:":1,"#It’s a big win to have the Belem Action Mechanism established with the strongest-ever COP language around Indigenous and worker rights and biodiversity protection. The BAM agreement is in stark contrast to this COP’s total flameout on implementing a funded and fair fossil fuel phaseout. Even without the Trump administration there to bully and cajole, petrostates again shut down meaningful progress on a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels with necessary funding for poorer countries. It’s critical that countries lock down some meaningful, funded game plan for a fossil fuel phaseout. In just a few years, we expect the U.S. to be back in these talks. We should have an agreement that binds the U.S. to provide funding and technology to poor countries in line with its role as the largest historical emitter.":1,"#Jean Su, Center for Biological Diversity’s Energy Justice Director":1,"#The ‘COP of truth’ turned its back on the climate destruction and suffering caused by industrial animal agriculture. Small-scale farmers are rightly given an important role in the just transition, but it’s concerning there is no mention of animal welfare, considering the health of animals and our environment are so deeply connected. Big agribusiness won at COP30, while wildlife and farmed animals were reduced to commodities and excluded from any climate action. For a COP hosted in the Amazon, it’s devastating that deforestation took a back seat. Wildlife, indigenous people and traditional communities who call the forest home deserved far better. The UNFCCC must act decisively to curb the influence of ‘big ag’ and tackle emissions from food systems if it hopes to salvage credibility ahead of COP31 in Türkiye.":1,"#Elodie Guillon, Head of Civil Society and Engagement, World Animal Protection, said:":1,"#The just transition outcome, on the other hand, is a win for civil society, which has long pushed for it. This decision develops a mechanism for supporting countries to create and implement just transition plans – in the energy, agriculture and other sectors – that will reduce emissions while protecting communities, workers and ordinary people. But as we’ve seen, rich developed countries will bend over backwards to avoid their obligations on climate finance. For the just transition mechanism to live up to its potential as a real game-changer, and for the world to have a chance at averting the worst of the climate crisis, rich countries have to step up.":1,"#The adoption of a strong text on just transition at COP30 is a cause for celebration, but it’s tempered by the fact that rich developed countries have continued fighting against any meaningful pledges to do their fair share. They watered down a commitment to triple adaptation finance – which is absolutely crucial for the survival of many frontline communities in the Global South – by removing the baseline and pushing the deadline to 2035. Ten years from now is an unimaginably long time for communities facing life-threatening impacts <em ljsid-1=\"\">now</em>. Unless developed countries are pressed hard, this decision does little but lock in climate injustice for the foreseeable future.":1,"#Brandon Wu, Director of Policy and Campaigns at ActionAid USA, said:":1,"#There was meaningful progress made on just transition, particularly the references to equity, human and labor rights. However, the abdication of responsibility extended to adaptation finance, where rich countries once again refused to acknowledge or act on their historical role in driving the climate crisis. Their continued obstruction is not just a policy failure but a moral one, leaving vulnerable communities to shoulder the consequences of decades of emissions they did not cause.":1,"#While the city of Belém delivered, rich countries did not. It was deeply disappointing to see that a roadmap for transitioning away from fossil fuels could not be reached, largely because rich countries once again refused to put real finance on the table for implementation. Their unwillingness to support the very transitions they publicly champion exposes a profound lack of political will and continues to place the burden of the climate crisis on those least responsible for it.":1,"#David Williams, Head of International Climate Justice Program, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung":1,"#The COP30 decision to create a just transition mechanism both responds to <a ljsid-1=\"\">the demands</a> of many <a ljsid-3=\"\">Indigenous Peoples</a>, frontline workers, and the most impacted communities, while lacking the processes, <a ljsid-5=\"\">principles</a>, and fundamental components necessary for ensuring a just transition. The context in which the <a ljsid-7=\"\">Just Transition Work Programme</a> negotiations have taken place does not align with just transition principles. At this year’s COP, we have witnessed an unacceptable, record-breaking number of <a ljsid-9=\"\">fossil fuel</a> and <a ljsid-11=\"\">false solutions lobbyists</a>, including advocates of carbon capture and storage and carbon markets. The fight for a just transition did not start at this COP, and it will not end in Belém. There can be no just transition without the most affected groups deciding pathways forward, based on their needs, indispensable knowledges, and visions for systems change. Only with these groups’ central involvement in decision making will the just transition mechanism be fully realized.":1,"#Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Just Transition Alliance":1,"#This COP has yet again delivered incrementalism where science and justice demand a rapid, equitable, and just transition away from an economy driven by fossil fuel extraction and exploitation of people. Last week thousands participated in the independent, social movement-organized People’s Summit, producing a declaration that stated in no unclear terms that we must end the crises of climate chaos, economic instability, and escalating fascism, wars, and genocide suffering our peoples. That demands a wholesale transformation of economies away from the profiteering of the few towards an economy in the hands of the people. This COP was indeed historic in its level of unnecessary militarized response to Indigenous peoples and activists exercising their right to protest. Militarization does not keep our communities safe, it only cultivates violence, trauma, and ecological destruction. There can be no climate justice without demilitarization.":1,"#Adrien Salazar, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance":1,"#Any debate on the energy transition has to be framed within the context of justice and reparation for the territories and peoples affected by extractivism. There’s no just transition without recognition of the ecological debt owed by countries in the Global North. We need public climate finance derived from the debt owed to countries of the Global South, but instead the Global North is busy spending billions to finance war and genocide.":1,"#Reactions from members of the":1,"#Daniela Mendoza, Censat Agua Viva / Friends of the Earth Colombia":1,"#COP30 adds yet another chapter to the long history of climate talks captured by corporate interests. What was supposed to be the ‘COP of Truth’ was overwhelmed with lies and false ‘solutions’ designed to protect the same rich and powerful actors who pushed the world into this crisis. Meanwhile, real solutions that can strengthen communities’ adaptive capacity, restore ecosystems, and drive a Just Transition continue to fall on deaf ears. It is infuriating to watch governments speak of ‘transition’ while clinging to the extractive logic that created the crisis in the first place. This moment demanded reckoning and real transformation because we simply have no time left for delays. And once again, COP30 failed to rise to that moment.":1,"#Jax Bongon, IBON International:":1,"#The rich polluting countries that caused this crisis have blocked the breakthrough that we need. Amidst this flawed outcome, there are glimmers of real progress. The Belém Action Mechanism is a major win made possible by movements and Global South countries that puts people’s needs and rights at the center of climate action. The EU, UK, Australia and other wealthy nations are to blame for COP’s failure to adopt a roadmap on fossil fuels by refusing to commit to phase out first or put any public money on the table for the crisis they have caused. We didn’t win the full justice outcome we need in Belém, but we have new arenas to keep fighting. We look forward to Colombia’s first international conference on fossil fuel phase out to rally more countries behind this push that science, equity, and international law demand.”":1,"#Romain Ioualalen, Global Policy lead at Oil Change International":1,"#Only a couple days ago, the halls of climate action were literally up in flames. This feels like a scary manifestation of the reality outside of these climate talks. Though there has been some shifting of the dial thanks to the sustained campaigning of movements, we cannot proclaim any COP a victory if it delivers baby steps on paper that still equate to leaps and bounds backwards on the ground. With a climate crisis that is burning down peoples’ doors and drowning entire communities— especially those on the frontlines— the pace of action must match that of a world champion sprinter, not a slug. Yet again the EU and others, as the largest historical polluters, continue to orchestrate their great escape. The US, who told the world it wouldn’t even bother to show up, is still manipulating on the sidelines in Belém while it expands oil and gas drilling at home. And Big Polluters continue to write the rules of climate action with no protections in place. We must reset the system– Kick Big Polluters Out, demand the Global North do its fair share and pay its climate debt, and urgently and justly end the fossil fuel era that is poisoning us. These are the only measures by which a true success can be measured.":1,"#Rachel Rose Jackson, Corporate Accountability:":1,"#Once again negotiations were down to the wire with rich countries blocking genuine progress on finance and just transitions. They are playing fast and loose with people’s lives. There can be no fossil fuel transition without trillions in climate finance, equity and deep transformation of our economies and society. At the Peoples’ Summit thousands of social movements created a path away from environmental disaster, economic instability and the rise of the far right. Our unity is our beacon of hope.":1,"#Kirtana Chandrasekaran, Friends of the Earth International":1,"#<strong ljsid-0=\"\">Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland</strong><strong ljsid-1=\"\"><br ljsid-1-0=\"\"> </strong>After two weeks of fraught negotiations, rich countries had to be dragged to the table kicking and screaming to reach the outcome we have today. They tried to bully developing countries into accepting crumbs and the weakening of language in the text to serve their interests. But for once, we can at least say we have taken a small step forward. This will be welcomed by the millions for whom these talks are life or death. However, the scale of the crisis we face requires giant leaps forward.<br ljsid-3=\"\"> This eleventh hour deal finally puts forward two of the key outcomes the countries on the front lines of climate breakdown have long been demanding – a meaningful pathway to a fair and just transition and real finance to help them adapt to the escalating effects of climate breakdown.<br ljsid-5=\"\"> While the tripling of cash for adaptation is only the tip of the iceberg of what’s needed, it’s a start and signals that rich countries are being forced to recognise how critical this is to global cooperation on climate.<br ljsid-7=\"\"> Over the last 48 hours, there has been unprecedented and targeted pressure from thousands of people, including many of our supporters in the UK, who have been calling on governments like ours to stop holding the talks hostage. This is how we were able to move them to back the call for a transition that leaves no one behind. The new Just Transition mechanism is the stepping stone to a greener future rooted in fairness and dignity for all. Of course, there is still much to be desired in the final outcome. Promises of doubling and tripling debt-creating loans will offer little hope to those whose economies are being devastated by killer floods and droughts. If we can stop the UK and other rich countries blocking plans to tax big business and the wealthy elites, we can shore up the funds needed to tackle both the climate and inequality crisis.":1,"#The Global North should be ashamed. Yet again the EU and others, as the largest historical polluters, continue to orchestrate their great escape rather than do their fair share. The U.S., who told the world it wouldn’t even bother to show up, is still manipulating on the sidelines in Belém while it expands oil and gas drilling at home. And Big Polluters continue to write the rules of climate action with no protections in place. We must Kick Big Polluters Out, reset the system, demand the Global North do its fair share and pay its climate debt, and urgently and justly end the fossil fuel era that is poisoning us. These are the only measures by which a true success can be measured.”":1,"#This mechanism is not the end of the struggle, but it is a vital victory that anchors our fights for justice within the UN. The wider COP30 outcome still falls short: Global North governments lack ambition on adaptation and loss and damage finance, and continue to drag their feet on fossil fuel phase-out while expanding extraction. Their touted ‘roadmap’ was rightly rejected — a map with no street names and no vehicle. That vehicle is Northern ambition and finance. But BAM shows the power of grassroots and frontline leadership.":1,"#COP30 has agreed on a Global Just Transition Mechanism — the Belém Action Mechanism (BAM). We won this because our movements forced a shift from the Global North’s initial refusal to back any new institutional arrangements. Even the UK government moved under huge pressure: in just seven hours, over 40 youth groups and 100 UK organisations and unions backed our calls for the BAM.":1,"#Leon Sealey-Huggins, War on Want":1,"#La organización popular alrededor de esta COP ha mostrado cómo la diversidad de los pueblos insiste en soluciones y camina la esperanza, que en la Zona Azul son deliberadamente restringidas. Queremos resaltar que otro futuro es posible, pero no sin nosotrxs. Ninguna decisión más sobre nosotrxs sin nosotrxs. Fuera los grandes contaminadores, Fuera el agronegocio, Fuera los Combustibles Fósiles, y todas sus narrativas. Un futuro es posible si articulamos nuestras luchas contra todos los grandes contaminadores y sus falsas soluciones.":1,"#Andrea Echeverri, Global forest coalition, Colombia":1,"#Thirty-three years after the UNFCCC was born here in Brazil, we return to a COP where the rich countries came determined to block finance, weaken equity, silence frontline voices, and turn the UNFCCC into a playground of their manipulative games and hypocritical grandstanding. Despite their delay tactics and threats, peoples’ power forced open political space through advances on a Just Transition mechanism and a formal process to scrutinise Article 9.1 finance obligations of the Global North. But these gains will mean nothing unless the EU, UK, and broader Global North finally deliver public, grant-based climate finance at the scale of trillions. We reject the continued attempts to repackage false solutions like TFFF that financialise nature, undermine rights, and allow polluters to keep polluting instead of phasing out fossil fuels. COP30 showed that while governments stalled, the Peoples’ Summit showed the path forward. Our message is simple: the answer is us. We will keep fighting for real climate finance, a just, equitable, feminist and funded transition, and a fast, fair, funded, fossil fuel phase-out led by the Global North, because climate justice is not a favour to be granted, but a right our peoples will claim.":1,"#Rachitaa Gupta, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice":1,"#Different COP, same old story. The UNFCCC needs to be fundamentally reformed for it to retain even an illusion of legitimacy. There is no way that this process is even capable of ending deforestation, much less steering the world away from catastrophic climate change, equitably or otherwise. The corporate lobbyists must be kicked out immediately, and big polluters face up to their moral responsibilities now.":1,"#Janaina Uemura, Global Forest Coalition, Brazil":1,"#COP30 has once again exposed the widening gulf between diplomatic theatre and the lived realities of frontline communities in the Global South. The process remains captured by the same interests driving the climate crisis, prioritising false, market-driven ‘solutions’ over real justice, real finance, and real emissions cuts. In its outcomes and its posture, COP30 continues to reward polluters while sidelining Indigenous peoples, workers, farmers and communities already paying the highest price for a crisis they did not create.":1,"#“Only a couple days ago, the halls of climate action were literally up in flames. This feels like a scary manifestation of the reality outside of these climate talks. This must be our moment of reckoning. We cannot proclaim any COP a victory if it only delivers baby steps on paper that equate to leaps and bounds backwards on the ground. With a climate crisis that is burning down peoples’ doors and drowning entire communities <strong ljsid-1=\"\"><span ljsid-1-0=\"\">—</span></strong> especially those on the frontlines <strong ljsid-3=\"\"><span ljsid-3-0=\"\">— </span></strong>the pace of action must match that of a world champion sprinter, not a slug.":1,"#Ogunlade Olamide Martins, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), Nigeria:":1,"#The third pillar of climate action called the Inter-American Human Rights Court to Repairing Loss and Damage. However, COP30 was empty of decisions to transform existing mechanisms to repair loss and damage. A penny less fund and the denial of obligations to repair remain a key part of the climate regime architecture. Communities around the world demand access to justice and the end of profiteering, it’s time for States to live up to their obligations and repair the harm. Neither rights nor legal duties should be on the negotiation’s menu, the UNFCCC must align with the law.":1,"#Adrián Martínez Blanco, La Ruta del Clima":1,"#It was the youth, the women, the indigenous peoples, the afro-descendents and the periphery that brought systematic change and climate justice. From the mangroves to the mountains.":1,"#We have seen the closed doors and black box “diplomacy” shutting out observers. We have seen the manipulation of the media and the greenwashing of this just transition. We have seen the failure of UNFCCC doing too little too late. We need reform and we need action and when we succeed, we will let them know that it wasn’t because of these hallways.":1,"#While BAM, a cross constituency effort is reflected in the Just Transition Mechanism it means nothing without adaptation finance. Tripling finance from 2025 means nothing if there was no finance to triple! Earth in Brackets represents the youth as a part of the environmental movement and incremental progress, while progress is not enough.":1,"#At the COP of Truth we witnessed many lies. The lies of action in these inaccessible halls. The lies of the global north championing the climate. The lies of climate finance as they weaken language refusing to pay up. All without acknowledging colonialism, imperialism and capitalism as the true root causes of climate collapse.":1,"#Pema Lhundrup, Earth in Brackets, said:":1,"#The EU led circus over the Roadmap for transitioning away from fossil fuels was nothing more than a negotiating ploy to water down proposed text they did not like – foremost of which was on Adaptation Finance. A serious proposal for a Roadmap should be grounded in the principle of equity based on historical and differentiated responsibility, and ensure the inclusion of clear targets and timelines, corresponding commitments for climate finance delivery, and a comprehensive just transition program. The people of the South have the greatest stake in a rapid, just and equitable transition out of fossil fuels, directly to democratic renewable energy systems, with no false solutions. We welcome the decision on Just Transition, a product of hard work and campaigning by movements and civil society and an important step forward.":1,"#Lidy Nacpil, Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development:":1,"#On Saturday, November 22, Corporate Accountability Director of Climate Research and Policy Rachel Rose Jackson issued the following statement. As the COP30 clock is winding down, here is our take on whether COP30 is set to deliver the package people and the planet urgently need:":1,"#Instead of rising to the moment and scaling up grant-based finance for adaptation and for loss and damage, these countries continue to play political games. The result is devastating: millions of already vulnerable people who are being pushed closer to the brink, their futures eroded by inaction and broken promises.":1,"#Meanwhile, the scale of adaptation needs in the global South runs into the billions, as climate impacts intensify and fall hardest on the poorest and most vulnerable communities—those least responsible for the crisis, yet most affected by the historical emissions of developed nations.":1,"#The countries of the Global North, led by the EU and UK, effectively held the COP30 negotiations hostage—insisting on diluting commitments to climate finance for adaptation before allowing progress. Their public frustration over the supposed lack of ambition on mitigation was little more than posturing, designed to deflect attention from their own obligations.":1,"#Meena Raman, Third World Network":1,"#Quotes":1,"#COP30 outcome clearly shows the real direction of climate action comes from people-led, community-rooted solutions. We will continue to fight inside the UNFCCC, but it is the power of the peoples and movements that will deliver the transformation needed. Despite obstruction, false solutions, and political theatre by the Global North, the truth that stands clear is that the answers lie with the peoples and not with those who created this crisis.":1,"#In this context, we also reject the increased push for all false solutions including the market-based and financialisation of land, forests, oceans and resources, especially TFFF (Tropical Forest Forever Facility), a rebranded carbon market scheme that allows polluters to continue polluting, distracting from the urgent need for public, grant-based climate finance and real emissions cuts.":1,"#The Brazilian presidency’s resolve to advance Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels through a roadmap is a welcome step, but fossil fuel phase out must be fast, fair, funded, equitable and without false solutions starting with the rich countries who created this crisis.<strong ljsid-1=\"\"> </strong>Global North countries must sign Colombia’s Belém Declaration on transitioning away from fossil fuels and reflect their commitment to cut emissions through ambitious NDCs and stop any new fossil fuel expansion.":1,"#The mutirão also delivered crucial steps on Global North financial obligations and options to discuss trade and climate linkages, which is a small but important step. COP30 finally saw creation of a formal space to examine implementation of Article 9.1 for the first time, the Paris Agreement’s legal requirement that developed countries shall provide climate finance to developing countries. This outcome was secured despite intense resistance from the rich countries who continue to inflate their finance claims, count loans as climate support, and push private finance instead of public, grant-based, non-debt creating finance to the Global South as per their obligations. Their attempts to dilute this new work programme by expanding it toward “mobilising private finance” reveal a broader effort to evade responsibility. Even though it is limited, this inclusion ensures a new tool for accountability of the Global North countries and exposes long-standing finance deception, where rich countries continue to spend trillions to advance their war campaigns and military operations instead of taxing the rich and ending fossil fuel subsidies. This deception was further reflected in the hollow commitment on tripling adaptation finance without any reference to base line when the real needs for adaptation and loss and damage finance is in trillions.":1,"#One such advance is the establishment of a Just Transition Mechanism inside the UNFCCC that offers hope for a plan that will be just, equitable and ecological, leaving no one behind. This comes after decades of organising by Indigenous Peoples, workers, women, youth, peasants, fisherfolk, and frontline communities. The mechanism finally recognises inclusion of workers affected by transitions, including informal labour, people in vulnerable situations, Indigenous Peoples, farmers, peasants, fisherfolk, local communities, migrants and internally displaced persons, people of African descent, women, children, youth, elderly people, and persons with disabilities, to enable effective, inclusive, and participatory just transition pathways. But the fight is only just beginning and its real potential will depend entirely on its operationalising which must be grounded in equity and CBDR-RC, ensure formal participation of civil society and rights-holders, and resist the corporate capture and false solutions that have repeatedly undermined climate justice. Without this, the mechanism risks becoming symbolic rather than transformational.":1,"#Just a few examples: Flint’s water crisis stemmed from the undemocratic emergency management of the city, which ran the government like a business. Education is increasingly becoming a commodity sold to “consumers,” to the detriment of low-income families and families of color in particular. And industry-backed proponents of carbon market “solutions” insist we can tackle climate change as a market problem, thereby completely circumventing the need to address the root cause: extracting and burning fossil fuels.":1,"#The implementation of this plan has made a handful of people extremely wealthy and has given corporations enormous power. Deeply intertwined with structural racism, it explicitly targets the lives and well-being of Black people, Indigenous people, people of color, immigrants, women, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, people with little to no money, and those at the intersections of these identities. And it has sought to take away people’s sense of agency by positioning us as consumers first and as civic participants last.":1,"#No wonder that for so many of us the world feels chaotic and threatening in this moment. Today’s White House and its active dismantling of democracy and the protections people and the environment once had are no accident. Nor is the current administration the root of the problem. As celebrated author Nancy MacLean documents in “Democracy in Chains,” this is all the result of a decades-long plan to discredit and deconstruct governmental institutions in favor of unbridled markets.":1,"#But here in the U.S., we are up against almost half a century of a systematized dismantling of our democracy. This has come, in part, in the form of the aggressive positioning of corporations and the private sector as best suited to provide services, manage our shared resources, and even solve social problems. And it has been assisted by the promotion of a pervasive worldview that denigrates the ideals of the common good and dismisses the role of democratic institutions as protectors and advancers of the common good.":1,"#Systemic plans to destroy democracy":1,"#We must believe in and empower transparent, equitable, and responsive democratic governments to help create significant change.":1,"#Our conversations revolve around a world where every person—no matter where they are born, their race or gender, or their family’s economic situation—has the opportunity to reach their full human potential. A world rooted in justice and equity, where respect, cooperation, and mutual care are the basis for our social interactions and institutions. To bring such a world into being, we must see ourselves as actors and agents in a democracy that we can shape.":1,"#In order to build a world where every person has the opportunity to reach their full human potential, we must see ourselves as actors and agents in a democracy we can shape. Join us in forging our way toward a new and truly just democracy.":1,"#A vital part of the movement challenging corporate power - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Corporate accountability rally for just democracy":1,"#But I can feel the ground shifting. I feel tremendous energy of change all around us. And I see the vision we have articulated together—a world where we collectively care for each other and this planet that supports us—drawing into focus as we work with allies and members like you. Together we are writing the story of our time as we reclaim the ideals of the common good and forge our way toward a new and truly just democracy.":1,"#Your partnership enables us to play a vital role in a growing movement to reclaim and fundamentally transform the democratic systems that have failed us. I am under no illusion that this will be an easy 11th-hour-save: We are up against tremendous power. And every day there are new challenges.":1,"#Some of the most exciting conversations I have with members like you are the ones in which we think together about the world we are building.":1,"#Which means we have always worked from a systemic perspective. We expose and challenge corporate power at the heart of our society’s deep and life-threatening injustices. We mobilize people to secure policies and safeguards—like the global tobacco treaty—that promote just and democratic governance and the common good. And we move people from thinking of themselves primarily as “consumers,” “customers,” or even “clients” of the systems and institutions we rely on to instead seeing themselves as actors and agents in a democracy that we can—and must— shape together.":1,"#And we are not simply interested in putting out fires; we are also determined to keep matches out of the hands of arsonists.":1,"#For more than 40 years, Corporate Accountability, in partnership with allies and members like you, has been challenging unchecked corporate power and holding corporations accountable for the harms they cause.":1,"#Foundational transformation":1,"#I believe this too. We are part of a growing movement organizing to ultimately advance our democracy.":1,"#For MacLean, this means that it’s not too late. She believes the story of our time will end not with the ultimate dismantling of our democratic institutions. Rather, she believes it will conclude with successful 11th-hour organizing to stymie Koch’s plans.":1,"#And as we organize with people around the U.S., we are seeing a new and increased readiness to take back that power. In fact, when MacLean recently visited our campaign headquarters, she told us she too sees encouraging signs. In her travels around the country, speaking with thousands of people and organizations, she sees how we are broadening our connections, working across differences and issues, and identifying entrenched corporate power and its underpinnings of systemic racism as roots of our broken systems.":1,"#Great thinkers and writers are exposing the deep roots and hidden agendas behind the ideology that advances corporate power. Nancy MacLean’s “Democracy in Chains,” for example, is a thoroughly researched exposé of how Charles Koch engineered what is essentially a corporate takeover of government. A recent report from the Roosevelt Institute describes, and suggests policies to address, the “one-two punch” that has entrenched corporate power and weakened what they term “public power.”":1,"#But over the past few years, we have experienced a slow, steady shift. Organizers and scholars, artists and teachers, writers and workers—we are learning more about and exposing this decades-long, intentional dismantling of government.":1,"#The ground is shifting":1,"#A vital part of the movement challenging corporate power":1,"#May 24, 2019":1,"#That’s why Keltie, who interned at Corporate Accountability before joining the Campaigns team, felt drawn to the organization’s global approach, and the ways that it challenges not only giant, transnational corporations, but also the vast networks of governments and institutions that so often do their bidding. She joined the team full time as campaigns coordinator, where she helped plan and implement tactics from pressuring corporations at annual shareholders meetings to producing hard-hitting reports. In her current role, Keltie supports her team members in creating and implementing foundations fundraising strategy, grant writing, and building relationships with funders. She also is the director of the <a ljsid-1=\"\">Fondo de Solidaridad del Movimiento</a>, Corporate Accountability’s grant-making program, which has raised and redistributed more than $2 million to fund Corporate Accountability’s strategic campaign partners across the Global South.":1,"#Ari Belathar, Executive Director - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Ari Belathar, executive director of Corporate Accountability, also serves on the organization's board of directors.":1,"#As Corporate Accountability’s executive director and the assistant secretary of the board of directors, Ari builds the organization’s strength, resources, and power toward winning campaigns and accomplishing our mission. They lead the organization’s work in strengthening partnerships with Global South communities, elevating the leadership, voices, and experiences of those on the ground. And they nurture Corporate Accountability’s role as a leader and collaborator—linking movements, fostering solidarity, and driving collective action for meaningful change.":1,"#During the student strike, they helped establish Mexico’s first community radio station. Their work on a daily news show as the only openly queer radio host in Latin America at that time made them a target of the Mexican army. They faced persecution, and were forced to flee Mexico as a refugee.":1,"#Pronouns: they/them":1,"#Vimeo":1,"#Pronouns: he/him/his “It all comes down to a deep sense of unfairness,” Taylor says when explaining what drives him to challenge corporate abuse. Motivated by a desire to seek justice, Taylor employs innovative and tried-and-true practices to ensure people know about, feel connected to, and engage with Corporate Accountability’s work and mission in the digital ...":1,"#África hoy sobre la privatización del agua en África con Shayda Naficy y Bode Olufemi”":1,"#El agua, un bien de lujo":1,"#Activistas se unen para detener la privatización del agua y el desarrollo urbano en la India":1,"#Crisis del agua en Lagos: Hoja de ruta alternativa para el sector público del agua":1,"#discharged in areas around Plymouth between December 2015 and January 2016.":1,"#10 million gallons of raw untreated sewage":1,"#Under Veolia’s operation of the city’s wastewater treatment system, over":1,"#“widespread supply cuts, bill irregularities, environmental hazards, and unkept commitments” under Veolia’s management, and ultimately the State decided to discontinue its contract with the Veolia-controlled utility.":1,"#alleged":1,"#managed the water utility. Government officials also":1,"#a Veolia subsidiary":1,"#, during the time":1,"#in 2004":1,"#A typhoid outbreak occurred":1,"#Gabon:":1,"#to a cheaper alternative, without the required state approval, and miscalculation related to chemicals used potentially led to a crisis that soon followed.":1,"#switched a corrosion control chemical":1,"#Under Veolia’s management, the city’s water authority":1,"#, where residents sued Veolia for alleged improper wastewater treatment. But some of the worst cases include:":1,"#Southwest San Diego County":1,"#, where residents sued the corporation and the city for violating constitutional rights by depriving customers of fluoridated drinking water, and in":1,"#In recent years, Veolia has faced lawsuits in":1,"#in revenue that it raked from its business across the globe last year. Without accounting for attorneys’ fees, this settlement would amount to about $2,000 per claimant from the corporation. Veolia also refused any legal admission of wrongdoing, noting in a press release that “[t]his final settlement is in no way an admission of responsibility…” This means there’s hardly anything barring it from doing the same to other communities.":1,"#nearly $50 billion":1,"#And Nayyirah’s right: the financial compensation does not make up for Veolia’s failure to sound the alarm about Flint’s water. Though the settlement amount may seem significant, Veolia is actually paying a meager amount – only about 0.1% of the":1,"#: “The fact that our community members could force Veolia to settle is a testament to their determination and the strength of their case. However, this settlement cannot undo Veolia’s abuses in Flint.”":1,"#put it succinctly":1,"#Reflecting on the outcome of the lawsuits, Nayyirah Shariff, Executive Director of Flint Rising,":1,"#, and beyond.":1,"#facing water injustices, and connected the dots between Veolia’s actions in Flint to":1,"#communities":1,"#to advocate for infrastructure funding and updated environmental regulations, organized in solidarity with other":1,"#federal action":1,"#actors that played a role in this crisis. And Flint Rising, a local grassroots group, has called for":1,"#corporate":1,"#government":1,"#For years, Flint residents have sued the":1,"#with about 26,000 Flint residents for $53 million. In exchange, the state agreed to drop its separate case against Veolia.":1,"#settlement":1,"#Eleven years on, the legal battles have started to come to a close. In February 2025, Veolia announced a":1,"#to distort and distract from the accusations related to its role in the crisis.":1,"#efforts":1,"#In the years since, Veolia has poured money into dubious":1,"#with the city.":1,"#chased other lucrative contracts":1,"#to drink. All the while, Veolia":1,"#told Flint residents their water was safe":1,"#the potential for lead contamination over email (which Corporate Accountability helped bring to light by digging through troves of court documents), Veolia":1,"#Veolia was brought in early during the crisis to assess Flint’s water system and failed to sound the alarm. After internally":1,"#higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease":1,"#early on-set dementia":1,"#. In general, lead exposure is also linked to the potential for":1,"#experience learning delays":1,"#still haven’t seen a penny of compensation from the legal settlements. Flint residents are still dealing with the long-term health impacts of the water contamination. Studies show that children who were exposed to lead during the crisis are more likely to":1,"#majority of residents":1,"#– and a":1,"#reliable access to clean, drinking water":1,"#To this day, Flint lacks":1,"#. What followed was a series of government failures and corporate abuse that exacerbated this public health and human rights disaster.":1,"#the switch of Flint’s water supply, which occurred":1,"#allowed":1,"#On April 25, 2014, Flint’s state-appointed emergency manager":1,"#First, Flint residents must receive their settlement funds swiftly so they can get the resources they need to deal with the impacts of the crisis. A vast <a ljsid-1=\"\">mayoría</a> still haven’t received a penny of settlement funds so far, including from the state of Michigan’s landmark $626 million settlement with residents. Recent reporting <a ljsid-3=\"\">suggests</a> that most residents will receive settlement checks this summer – over eleven years since the start of the crisis – with the highest payments going to child claimants who were aged 6 or under during the crisis and susceptible to developmental delays due to lead exposure.":1,"#after Veolia’s settlement announcement, “With billionaire CEOs at the highest levels of government, it’s more important than ever that we safeguard our most precious resource, and keep our communities’ water under community control.”":1,"#shared with reporters":1,"#As our Water Campaign Director, Neil Gupta,":1,"#, and around the world like":1,"#by mobilizing a group of residents, environmental activists, and labor leaders, who called attention to the dangerous track record of the private water industry and voiced opposition to these plans at City Council. And by building powerful coalitions, public water advocates have won similar victories in cities across the U.S. like":1,"#stopped a major water privatization threat":1,"#And it really is possible. Last year, we and our allies in Houston":1,"#to the state of Michigan:":1,"#three demands":1,"#legally accountable for their role in the crisis, the state can take steps to rectify its mistakes by addressing community needs, including Flint Rising’s":1,"#corporations":1,"#, such as Former Governor Rick Snyder, or":1,"#government actors":1,"#Second, we must listen to and mobilize to meet the needs of Flint residents. While Michigan has failed to meaningfully hold any of the":1,"#that most residents will receive settlement checks this summer – over eleven years since the start of the crisis – with the highest payments going to child claimants who were aged 6 or under during the crisis and susceptible to developmental delays due to lead exposure.":1,"#suggests":1,"#still haven’t received a penny of settlement funds so far, including from the state of Michigan’s landmark $626 million settlement with residents. Recent reporting":1,"#First, Flint residents must receive their settlement funds swiftly so they can get the resources they need to deal with the impacts of the crisis. A vast":1,"#unaffordable water bills, job losses, and poorer quality service":1,"#to privatize water systems. And while private water corporations line their coffers with public dollars, all too often, communities pay the price through":1,"#target cash-strapped cities":1,"#Across the globe, Veolia’s dangerous schemes have risked public access to clean and affordable water, one of our most essential resources. This story rings familiar for far too many. It is no coincidence that private water corporations often":1,"#Finally, as if BlackRock could use more arguments to win the 2022 Hall of Shame award, the company is also a beneficial shareholder for the large majority of other U.S. based Hall of Shame nominees. For example, BlackRock owns 6.9% of <a ljsid-1=\"\">Facebook</a>, 6.45% of <a ljsid-3=\"\">Coca Cola</a>, 5.7% of <a ljsid-5=\"\">Amazonas</a>, 6.4% of <a ljsid-7=\"\">LockHeed Martin</a>, 6% of <a ljsid-9=\"\">Philip Morris</a>, and 6.5% of <a ljsid-11=\"\">Cheurón.</a>":1,"#While we’ve only examined a few areas of the shameful impacts of BlackRock’s business operations, there are many more examples we could look at, ranging from <a ljsid-1=\"\">Big Tech hate profiteers</a> a <a ljsid-3=\"\">union-busting corporations</a> and much, much more. Where there is corporate-driven harm going on, you’ll almost always find BlackRock.":1,"#<strong ljsid-0=\"\">Industrias Presto Nacionales</strong>, which owns <a ljsid-2=\"\">AMTEC</a>, the “largest volume producer of 40mm Grenade Ammunition and Fuzing in the world” along with several other explosives manufacturers. BlackRock <a ljsid-4=\"\">owns</a> 12.52% of National Presto, a $67.9 million stake at the time of the most recent filing.":1,"#<strong ljsid-0=\"\">Corporación Olin</strong>, a manufacturer of ammunition and chemical products that also owns <a ljsid-2=\"\">Winchester Ammunition</a>, the largest manufacturer for small caliber ammunition for the United States military. BlackRock <a ljsid-4=\"\">owns</a> 10.4% of Olin, an $825.8 million stake at the time of the most recent filing.":1,"#BlackRock’s investments in weapons manufacturers also equip and profit from war machines across the world that create massive refugee crises. In yet another attempt to distance itself from the harm tied to its business operations, BlackRock just <a ljsid-1=\"\">announced</a> a new partnership with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to help refugees displaced by war in Ukraine and Afghanistan. However, as <em ljsid-3=\"\">Código rosa</em> <a ljsid-5=\"\">reports</a>, BlackRock maintains sizable investments in some of the largest weapons manufacturers in the world who are directly profiting from arms sales tied to many of the wars that are creating refugee crises.":1,"#BlackRock’s support of police power in the United States extends far beyond just New York City. As <em ljsid-1=\"\">Código rosa </em>has <a ljsid-3=\"\">reported</a>, BlackRock is the largest shareholder in Axon, a nationwide supplier of tasers, body cameras, and surveillance software to police departments around the country. BlackRock holds <a ljsid-5=\"\">10.4%</a> of Axon’s stock, which currently amounts to over $600 million invested in the company. In addition to being the largest shareholder, former Chief Investment Officer at BlackRock, Matthew McBrady, has <a ljsid-7=\"\">served</a> on the board of Axon since 2016.":1,"#To start, BlackRock oversees one of the <a ljsid-1=\"\">world’s biggest</a> fossil fuel portfolios. It is a top owner of the world’s most powerful and <a ljsid-3=\"\">most polluting</a> oil and gas corporations – from <a ljsid-5=\"\">ExxonMobil</a> a <a ljsid-7=\"\">Cheurón</a> and from <a ljsid-9=\"\">ConocoPhillips</a> a <a ljsid-11=\"\">Marathon Petroleum</a>. It recently led a consortium of investors that plowed <a ljsid-13=\"\">$15.5 billion</a> into Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil and gas company – and one of the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel companies.":1,"#BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset management firm, has been nominated for the 2022 Corporate <a ljsid-1=\"\">Salón de la Vergüenza</a> by our friends at <a ljsid-3=\"\">Responsabilidad Corporativa</a>.":1,"#Lea el informe breve para saber más.":1,"#Entonces, ¿por qué el mercado de carbono sigue siendo tan popular, a pesar de la creciente evidencia de que está fallando y presenta graves deficiencias?":1,"#El informe muestra que Brasil es solo un ejemplo de cómo las compensaciones de carbono y el mercado de carbono no constituyen una vía comprobada, significativa ni permanente para reducir las emisiones globales.":1,"#Esta investigación amplía el informe de Corporate Accountability <strong ljsid-1=\"\">“</strong><a ljsid-2=\"\"><strong ljsid-2-0=\"\">¿</strong>Diseñados para Fallar?</a>”, que reveló que, a pesar de las continuas “reformas” del MVC, más de 47,7 millones de créditos de compensación problemáticos fueron retirados a través de 43 de los mayores proyectos de compensación del mundo en 2024. Este volumen representa casi una cuarta parte de todo el mercado voluntario de carbono en 2024.":1,"#Muchos de los mayores proyectos de compensación en Brasil figuran entre los más grandes del Mercado Voluntario de Carbono (MVC)) a nivel global, incluido Pacajai REDD, clasificado como el séptimo proyecto más grande del mundo por créditos retirados en 2024.":1,"#Grandes corporaciones internacionales, incluidas BlackRock, Shell, Philip Morris y EY, retiraron créditos problemáticos asociados a estos proyectos en Brasil entre enero de 2024 y junio de 2025.":1,"#Verra, el mayor actor de la industria de compensaciones de carbono del mundo, alberga la mayoría de estos proyectos problemáticos en Brasil, representando 12,8 millones de compensaciones de carbono retiradas en este período.":1,"#Casi el 75% de los créditos provenientes de los 50 mayores proyectos de compensación de carbono retirados en Brasil entre enero de 2024 y junio de 2025 son “problemáticos” y no deberían considerarse confiables para lograr reducciones de emisiones.":1,"#Nuevos hallazgos examinan la naturaleza problemática de los mayores proyectos de compensación de carbono basados en Brasil, país anfitrión de las recientes negociaciones del tratado climático de la ONU de 2025 (COP30). La investigación sugiere que existe poca evidencia de que estos proyectos probablemente logren las reducciones de emisiones prometidas. Entre los hallazgos clave se ...":1,"#INFORME: Más del 70% de todos los créditos de carbono retirados recientemente en Brasil son problemáticos - Corporate Accountability":1,"#”, que reveló que, a pesar de las continuas “reformas” del MVC, más de 47,7 millones de créditos de compensación problemáticos fueron retirados a través de 43 de los mayores proyectos de compensación del mundo en 2024. Este volumen representa casi una cuarta parte de todo el mercado voluntario de carbono en 2024.":1,"#Diseñados para Fallar?":1,"#<strong ljsid-0=\"\">¿</strong>Diseñados para Fallar?":1,"#Esta investigación amplía el informe de Corporate Accountability":1,"#Entre los hallazgos clave se incluyen:":1,"#Nuevos hallazgos examinan la naturaleza problemática de los mayores proyectos de compensación de carbono basados en Brasil, país anfitrión de las recientes negociaciones del tratado climático de la ONU de 2025 (COP30). La investigación sugiere que existe poca evidencia de que estos proyectos probablemente logren las reducciones de emisiones prometidas.":1,"#Not mariaelena? <a ljsid-1=\"\">Click here</a>.":1,"#Welcome back, mariaelena!":1,"#CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY ANNUAL MEMBER SURVEY - Corporate Accountability":1,"#CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY ANNUAL MEMBER SURVEY":1,"#Esta investigación amplía el informe de Corporate Accountability “ <a ljsid-1=\"\">“Construido para fallar”,</a> que reveló que a pesar de las “reformas” en curso del VCM, más de 47,7 millones de créditos de compensación problemáticos se retiraron a través de 43 de los proyectos de compensación más grandes del mundo en 2024. Este volumen representa casi una cuarta parte de todo el VCM en 2024. Muestra que Brasil es solo un ejemplo de cómo las compensaciones de carbono y el mercado de carbono no son una vía probada, significativa y permanente para la reducción de las emisiones globales.":1,"#AU":1,"#Google Fonts":1,"#Sriram Madhusoodanan":1,"#Fiscal year 2022 Annual Report - Corporate Accountability":1,"#See how Corporate Accountability's campaigns this year advanced systems change that puts people—not corporate interests—first.":1,"#FY 2022 Annual Report - Corporate Accountability":1,"#We go deep to go far.":1,"#Explore the FY22 Annual Report":1,"#Fiscal Year 22 Annual Report":1,"#What you made possible this year":1,"#In the years since, Veolia has poured money into dubious <a ljsid-1=\"\">relaciones públicas</a> <a ljsid-3=\"\">efforts</a> to distort and distract from the accusations related to its role in the crisis.":1,"#votes with management in the “climate-critical” industries it invests in. Between 2015 and 2019, BlackRock actively":1,"#According to the shareholder advocacy group Majority Action, BlackRock":1,"#in Australia, which over 100 companies have ruled out investing in due to public pressure. Not BlackRock, though!":1,"#BlackRock invested in Adani Group’s dirty":1,"#invested in the industry. This includes the":1,"#into companies developing new coal assets. BlackRock remains the single largest institutional investor in coal, with around":1,"#BlackRock has recently plunged more than":1,"#in the coal industry. While insurance and investment for the coal industry":1,"#BlackRock also remains one of the world’s":1,"#to the New York City Police Foundation, which supplies equipment and surveillance technology to a New York Police Department that has targeted Black and Brown communities in New York for decades.":1,"#invested in military weapons’ companies. Larry Fink has been a":1,"#invested in civilian gun manufacturers and retailers and an astounding":1,"#in investments in corporations that are propelling our climate catastrophe. It has":1,"#, and public health. However, BlackRock’s investment activity and governance practices drive business operations that directly harm Black and Indigenous communities and people of color around the world. The firm props up the fossil fuel industry to the tune of":1,"#to brand the firm as sensitive to global challenges like climate change, structural":1,"#BlackRock’s Founder, Chairman and CEO, Larry Fink, has":1,"#for the United States and China. BlackRock is a top shareholder across a wide range of global industries that include oil and gas, technology, retail, big banks, healthcare, weapons manufacturing, and much more. All this makes BlackRock one of the most powerful corporate actors on the planet, whose influence touches every aspect of our daily lives.":1,"#in assets under management. That’s more than the GDP of every country in the world":1,"#BlackRock has nearly":1,"#For all these reasons and more, we believe BlackRock is an excellent candidate to enter Corporate Accountability’s Corporate Hall of Shame in 2022.":1,"#and much, much more. Where there is corporate-driven harm going on, you’ll almost always find BlackRock.":1,"#While we’ve only examined a few areas of the shameful impacts of BlackRock’s business operations, there are many more examples we could look at, ranging from":1,"#) and Sportsman Warehouse Holdings (":1,"#BlackRock is also a top owner of major gun and ammunition retailers like Big 5 Sporting Goods (":1,"#12.52% of National Presto, a $67.9 million stake at the time of the most recent filing.":1,"#, the “largest volume producer of 40mm Grenade Ammunition and Fuzing in the world” along with several other explosives manufacturers. BlackRock":1},"version":7455}]