Antalya, Turkey - False climate solutions are increasingly finding their way into COPs and at this year’s climate negotiations, there are attempts to use the cover decision to push them as a key part of the outcome. With the looming breach of 1.5C, rich countries are using the concept of overshoot to paint Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) as a solution, despite these technologies being unproven, costly, and dangerous. COP31, also dubbed the “ocean COP”, is seeing rich countries and corporations peddle false solutions like ‘ocean climate solutions’ and ‘ocean climate technologies’. Meanwhile, the push for electrification is opening the door to more false solutions like nuclear energy. 

Behind every one of these false solutions is more extraction, more land and ocean grabbing, more exploitation and threats to communities, and more excuses to delay climate action. And while corporations rake in billions in profits, communities are left holding the climate bill. 

Instead of relying on technological scams like CDR technologies, or geoengineering and nature-based solutions, Global North countries must phase out fossil fuels, cut their emissions, pay their climate debt, and centre Indigenous knowledge and community-led solutions that protect lands, forests, rivers and oceans.

Join us to hear from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) members as they shed light on the Global North’s and big polluters tactics to use false solutions as a license to continue polluting and evade their obligations.

WHEN: 12 November 2026 | 11AM Antalya Time (8AM GMT)

WHERE: Press Conference 2, Area D4 (Livestream link)

WHO:

• Kwami Kpondzo, Global Forest Coalition
• Soumya Dutta, Friends of the Earth India
• Jax Bongon, IBON International
• Mary Church, Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL) | Hands Off Mother Earth Alliance (HOME Alliance)
• Rachitaa Gupta, DCJ as Moderator

For interviews and other queries: 

Juliah Kibochi & Sidharth Pandey, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ)

juliah.dcj@gmail.com, sidharth.dcj@gmail.com 

Neha Gupta, Hands Off Mother Earth Alliance (HOME Alliance) comms@handsoffmotherearth.org