by Joel Nkongolo | Nov 15, 2025 | COP 30
On Day 4 of COP30, Catholic leaders from across the Global South made history, stepping into a central role at the UN climate summit with a powerful, justice-focused message. A high-level gathering of cardinals, bishops, and Church networks highlighted urgent calls for climate justice, ecological conversion, and protection of vulnerable communities. As negotiations grew more tense over finance, adaptation, and gender language, faith leaders offered a united moral voice, urging action grounded in fairness, human dignity, and the lived realities of those most affected.
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by Joel Nkongolo | Nov 15, 2025 | COP 30
As COP30 enters another decisive day in Belém, messages of support continue to arrive from across the Claretian world, affirming the impact of our daily coverage. Readers appreciate the clear insights, timely updates, and accessible summaries that help them follow the fast-moving negotiations. Today’s bulletin brings key highlights: the growing role of Catholic actors at COP30, renewed calls for climate education, deepening divides over climate finance, and a strong push for a global Just Transition.
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by Joel Nkongolo | Nov 14, 2025 | COP 30
The Proclade policy brief for COP30 is a faith-based call to action grounded in the principles of integral ecology and climate justice. It argues that the climate crisis is fundamentally a crisis of injustice, disproportionately harming the world’s poorest and Indigenous peoples despite their minimal contribution to the problem. Rejecting “green capitalism” and technocratic false solutions, the brief presents seven strategic demands. These include an immediate and just phase-out of fossil fuels, reparative climate finance, a community-led energy transition, the protection of Indigenous land rights, and the decriminalization of environmental defenders. The policy is shaped by Catholic Social Teaching, the “preferential option for the poor,” and the lived experiences of grassroots communities connected to the Claretian Missionaries worldwide.
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by Joel Nkongolo | Nov 13, 2025 | COP 30
Day 2 marked the formal start of substantive work under the Subsidiary Bodies (SBI 63 and SBSTA 63) after a delayed opening. Negotiations expanded across several parallel tracks, including Presidency consultations, SB contact groups, and informal meetings addressing key issues such as climate finance, adaptation, mitigation, and institutional mechanisms. While the tone was largely constructive, sharp divisions persisted over finance obligations, Article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement, and the integration of scientific and justice-based approaches.
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by Joel Nkongolo | Nov 13, 2025 | COP 30
A Hopeful and Challenging Beginning
The 30th UN Climate Conference (COP30) opened in Belém, Brazil, the firstever COP held in the Amazon. With over 56.000 registered participants—about 10 000 fewer than at the 2024 summit—the day began with a spirit of unity and purpose.
Thanks to effective pre-sessional consultations, the agendas for the COP, CMP, CMA, and subsidiary bodies were adopted smoothly, avoiding the procedural gridlocks that have hampered previous summits. COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago hailed this as the beginning of a “COP of implementation, adaptation, and integration,” aimed at aligning climate policy with
economic and social development.
by Joel Nkongolo | Nov 13, 2025 | Campaigns and UN Events, COP 30
As the world prepares for COP30 in Belém, Brazil (November 10–22, 2025), the Fondazione Proclade Internazionale – Onlus, representing the Claretian Missionaries, issues a powerful policy brief urging nations and faith communities to act decisively for integral ecology and climate justice. A decade after the Paris Agreement and Laudato Si’, humanity faces rising temperatures, deepening inequality, and ecological collapse. Proclade calls for bold action: an immediate fossil fuel phase-out, reparative climate finance, debt cancellation, community-led energy transitions, land and food sovereignty, and protection for environmental defenders.
Rooted in Pope Francis’s vision and the Claretian charism to liberate the oppressed, this brief calls for a just and sustainable transformation of our global systems.
Download the full policy brief to discover Proclade’s seven strategic calls and how faith, justice, and hope can guide the world toward true ecological conversion at COP30.
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