LOOK: IBON International’s Climate Justice Programme Policy Officer, Jax Bongon, delivered an input at the Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO) coalition press conference at #COP30. He pointed to the irony of having an overwhelming number of fossil fuel lobbyists at a space that
[2] purports to address climate change. Jax expressed concern that the encroachment of corporations at COP has steered policymaking towards ‘false solutions’, which solely favor corporate interests. He asserted that practices led by communities are the #RealSolutions toward a
IN PHOTOS: IBON International and our partner organisations and movements held the ‘Prospects and Challenges for Real, Gender just, People-led climate solutions’ official side event on November 14, 2025, at #COP30.
[2] We looked into false solutions and how these maintain the extractive structures that pillage the Global South. The discussions illustrated the mechanisms necessary to push forward real climate solutions, as determined and practiced by local communities, women, and IPs
LOOK: Cecilia Corregidor, from Jujuy in Argentina, spoke at the Global Speakout on Militarism and Climate Injustice at the COP do Povo. She shared how the rush for transition minerals has intensified land dispossession and contaminated water sources as large-scale mining projects
[2] expand to feed demand for lithium in renewable batteries. Cecilia contends that this is not a 'Just Transition' and condemns the heightened militarisation and repression used to silence resistance. Despite attacks, her community continues to organise against corporate
He then emphasised that securing land ownership is essential to any real solution, noting that transforming food systems requires supporting communities whose knowledge and practices already embody sustainable ways of growing food and caring for the land.
#RealSolutions#COP30
LOOK: Speaking at a COP30 Peoples’ Summit side event, Omar Yampey of Heñói Centro de Estudios shared the challenges faced in Paraguay, where peasants and Indigenous communities continue to defend their territories amid land grabs from large agribusiness interests.
[3] peoples and their lands.
Central to the action’s calls is the liberation of Palestine from US-Israel occupation, where some USD 21.7 billion of US defense spending enable the ecocide of Palestinian lands.
ICYMI: IBON International joined movements in an action to resist climate imperialism on Nov 14, 2025 at #COP30. Groups asserted that ending wars is essential to achieving a truly Just Transition.
[2] Militarism remains one of the most destructive forces accelerating ecological collapse. The boost in global defense spending in recent years, particularly of the United States and other global North states, signals a colonial and extractive offensive against Global South
[3] and their co-optation of climate negotiations. We demand that food and agriculture transformation are put at the heart of #JustTransition.
Photos by Bianca Csenki
[1] LAND AND FOOD FOR PEOPLE, NOT FOR PROFIT!
LOOK: IBON International joined social movements in an action today in the #COP30 Blue Zone. Groups slammed the slow progress of the ‘Sharm el-Sheikh joint work on implementation of climate action on agriculture and food security’
[2] (SJWA), roadmap adopted in 2022 to address agriculture and food insecurity issues and is set to conclude next year.
With the establishment of the ‘AgriZone’, a space sponsored by Nestlé and pesticide firm Bayer, groups denounced the presence of big agribusiness at COP30
[1] At the #COP30 Spain Pavilion, our partner Jiten Yumnam shed light on the attacks faced by Indigenous rights defenders in Manipur, India. He described how state repression and corporate encroachment have led to violence and criminalisation of Indigenous communities defending
[2] their ancestral lands. These threats are compounded by the expansion of false 'solutions,' as well as large-scale mining and hydropower projects, that destroy ecosystems and uproot Indigenous Peoples from their territories.