The next United Nations annual climate conference, COP30, will take place in Belém, Brazil, between November 10 and 21, 2025. It will bring together 198 states and other parties, including the European Union, to address the global threat posed by climate change. A preparatory meeting will be held in Bonn, Germany, from June 16 to 26, 2025, where negotiations will begin on commitments to be adopted at COP30.
In the context of the upcoming meeting in Bonn, this document provides an overview of Amnesty International’s analysis of key human rights and climate justice issues.
This document accompanies Amnesty International’s pre-COP30 advocacy briefing, which provides a full set of our recommendations to the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to help them put human rights front and center of all climate action and decision-making at COP30 in Belém, Brazil.
This document presents a summary of Amnesty International’s findings and recommendations for achieving climate justice, addressing three thematic areas for strategic engagement at COP30:
1. The protection of environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) and civic space at multilateral forums discussing climate action;
2. The provision of new, adequate, predictable and additional climate finance; and
3. The urgent need for a just and equitable fossil fuel phase-out.
A complete set of recommendations can be found in Amnesty International’s Pre-COP advocacy briefing.