Liz Cronin, Climate Policy Lead at CAFOD (Catholic Agency for Overseas Development), said:
“Expectations for COP30 – taking place in a democracy, the Amazon, and a Jubilee Year – were sky high. The final Mutirão decision text, though not everything we had hoped, contains a very significant victory on a just transition implementation mechanism. This should be celebrated; it is a testament to the strength of civil society and developing countries, and what the multilateral COP process can achieve.
"We take two important fights to COP31 in Turkey: developed countries finally delivering the non debt-creating finance climate-vulnerable countries need, and a uniting around the fossil fuel transition commitment that was hard-won two COPs ago. Without both, a 1.5°C world is out of reach.”
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CAFOD is the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, and part of Caritas Internationalis, working with communities across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America to fight poverty and injustice, including those worst hit by climate change. The agency works with people in need, regardless of race, gender, religion or nationality.