Given the upcoming G20 Heads of State Summit in Rio de Janeiro on 18 November, we joined numerous civil society organisations from Latin America and the Caribbean in a joint letter calling for climate justice considerations in the upcoming negotiations.

This demand, aimed at recognising G20 countries' responsibility regarding the climate emergency, is rooted in the current insufficiency of commitments and actions to effectively adapt to and mitigate climate change.

Bearing in mind how G20 States are responsible for almost 80% of global GHG emissions and amount to 87% of worldwide GDP, the 52 organisations that endorsed this letter called upon G20 Heads of State to ensure that their countries abide by the following measures:

1. Ensure the presentation of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) with an increase in ambition of at least 43% of emissions reductions in 2030 and 60% in 2035.
2. Announce explicit commitments for phasing out fossil fuels and reforming related subsidies.
3. Implement the commitment to triplicate renewable energies and duplicate the annual energy efficiency improvement rate to 2030.
4. Promote a collaborative framework to facilitate an ongoing dialogue between the G20, Latin America, and the Caribbean to consider the social and environmental impacts of extracting critical minerals in these regions.
5. Support tropical forest countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation by 2030 and achieving zero deforestation.
6. Accelerate an international financial reform that goes beyond the scope of maximising the financing capacity of the Multilateral Development Banks, including measures such as a global minimum standard on the taxation of ultra-high-net-worth individuals as currently promoted by Brazil.
7. Ensure that the Paris Agreement's New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on climate finance addresses the needs and priorities of developing countries for mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage, with a minimum amount of US$1 trillion per year.

In the context of global challenges and a vigorous discussion on the role of multilateralism, global focus will be placed on Rio de Janeiro for the upcoming discussions. Hence, submissions such as this, which aim to break existing disciplinary silos and bridge the gaps between parallel multilateral negotiations (for example, by including the NCQG discussion on climate financing that will be happening in COP 29 in Azerbaijan simultaneously to the G20 Summit or the proposal on the taxation of the ultra-rich which will be debated at the future United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation), prove essential to make potential synergies explicit and, thereby, streamlining efforts to achieve the transformational people-centered measures that the triple interplanetary crisis demands.

You can read the joint letter here.