Greenpeace Greece,on COP30.

Greenpeace Greece

November 24, 2025 

The outcome of COP30 is not what it should have been: there is no action plan to end deforestation and transition away from fossil fuels, while there has been no progress on climate finance.

COP30 in Belem, Brazil, began with high hopes and promises, but ultimately ended without action plans to end deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels, as geopolitical disputes once again revealed a lack of connection with citizens who demanded climate action. 

The first COP on the Amazon rainforest should have produced a plan to end deforestation by 2030 and limit global warming to 1.5°C by phasing out fossil fuels. But it did neither, and it did not result in a substantial increase in climate finance.  

Despite a coalition of 90 countries pushing for an action plan to phase out fossil fuels, fossil fuels were not included in the final text. Ultimately, the governments of Colombia and the Netherlands announced that they would co-host the first international Conference on a Just Transition from Fossil Fuels in April 2026. Brazil tried to include a plan to end deforestation in the final text, but this too was dropped after it was linked to the fossil fuel plan. 

The last day of the COP was marked by the objection raised by Colombia and other Latin American countries regarding the lack of progress on the issue of mitigating the effects of climate change, which led to a temporary suspension of the plenary, before the official approval of the results of COP30. 

Jasper Inventor , deputy programme director at Greenpeace International, said: “ COP30 started with great ambition, but ended in disappointment. It was time to move from negotiations to implementation – and we missed the opportunity. The outcome fell short of the urgency. The 1.5°C limit is not just threatened, it is almost lost. This reality exposes the hypocrisy of one COP after another .”

“ COP30 showed no ambition on fossil fuels, on finance or on forests. No plan to phase out fossil fuels was agreed, no plan to protect forests and no meaningful increase in climate finance. However, the millions of people around the world and the tens of thousands on the streets of Belém show that hope lives outside the walls of the Conference, as communities continue to resist and rise up for our people and our planet .

Costas Kaloudis, head of the climate campaign at Greenpeace Greece, said: “We have seen the Greek government use a similar double-talk when it comes to fossil fuels. At COP30, it joined the coalition of 90 countries that called for an action plan to phase out fossil fuels (without putting much pressure on it, of course), while handing the country over to oil and gas companies for hydrocarbon extraction and other gas infrastructure, such as LNG plants and pipelines. But as long as the government protects interests, citizens resist and protest. Yesterday, Sunday, thousands of organizations, organizations and citizens of Volos and the wider region (including the Greek office of Greenpeace) held a protest march against the planned LNG plant in the Pagasetic Gulf. The power of the world is stronger than interests: in every project that is planned, we will they find in front of them .”

Carolina Pasquali, executive director of Greenpeace Brazil, said: “ President Lula set lofty goals, calling for plans to end fossil fuel use and deforestation, but divided leaders have failed to deliver. We face a crossroads – adequate funding for the 1.5°C target or climate catastrophe – and while many governments are willing to act, a strong minority are not. 

This weak outcome does not match what else happened in Belém. The largest indigenous participation at a climate COP, as well as marches and protests organized outside the hall, led to the demarcation of 14 areas, with four of them in the final stages of the process, securing over 2.4 million hectares of land for Brazil’s indigenous peoples. The rights, property and knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities, as well as the rights of people of African descent, were also formally recognized – a fact that could change the debate in the future. Plans to end fossil fuel use and deforestation and a strong financial outcome would have provided a historic result, but the work continues .”