Amsterdam — At COP25, world leaders have an opportunity to overcome growing global skepticism that they’re able to end the scientifically-predicted climate emergency. To deliver climate justice and prevent human rights abuses being inflicted upon billions of people by runaway climate change, governments must finalise the Paris Agreement rulebook and cap temperature rise at 1.5° celsius. 


Read about Greenpeace’s expectations at the COP25 here.

Following the IPCC issuing a dire warning and the recent UN Emissions Gap Report it’s time for leaders to turn commitments into action and: 

  • Urgently enhance their climate action targets, and outline a roadmap for NDC submissions in 2020
  • Ensure the costs of the energy transition are not passed down to the people, and that vulnerable communities are supported to react to climate impacts
  • Avoid riddling the Paris Agreement with carbon market loopholes
  • Listen to the science and the people, not to powerful extractive industries that block climate progress

Greenpeace International executive director, Jennifer Morgan, said:

“In Madrid, leaders have an opportunity to meet this crisis head-on and they must seize it. 

The latest models tell us the impacts are coming even harder and faster than we anticipated when we negotiated the Paris Agreement in 2015.

At the heart of the Paris Agreement is a ratchet system that allows the agreement to be responsive to new science, and COP25 needs to create the conditions for it to succeed. Leaders who are bound by Paris must use these negotiations in Madrid as a springboard for 2020, and show us a roadmap for submitting ambitious, enhanced national climate targets next year. Decision-makers have to show they care about the vulnerable communities most at risk and not powerful, profit-driven industry forces, and move to step up climate ambition and action immediately.”

Greenpeace Canada’s Senior Energy Analyst, Keith Stewart added :

“Last month, Canadians voted in favour of moving faster and further to address the climate emergency.  The new government needs to honour that intention and resist the oil lobby’s efforts to delay action through phony credits or creative accounting that undermine the integrity of the Paris climate agreement.”

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For more information, please contact:

Loujain Kurdi, Communication officer, Greenpeace Canada,

[email protected], +1 514-577-6657


Arin de Hoog, Greenpeace International,

[email protected], +31 646 197 329

Conrado Garcia del Vado, Greenpeace Spain, 

[email protected];  +34 660 47 12 67