Justice Takes Root: three legal imperatives at COP30

This year’s COP is historic: a decade since the landmark Paris Agreement, it's the first ever in the Amazon, and the first since the International Court of Justice’s landmark decision on climate confirmed that governments and corporations have legal duties to protect people and the planet from climate harm.   

There’s no more room for business as usual. The law is one of the most powerful tools we have to confront the climate crisis to hold polluters accountable, defend communities, and protect ecosystems.    

Yet, it seems like our leaders are backtracking on the same laws that could take us forward. And all of this is happening against a backdrop of growing climate disinformation.

At COP30, ClientEarth is asking global leaders to:

• recognise the threat of climate disinformation and use the power of the law to uphold information integrity and protect climate action
• respond to the ICJ’s findings by implementing 1.5°C-compatible NDCs into their domestic legal framework
• use COP30’s Action Agenda to commit to legal frameworks for corporate accountability