Our statement for Climate and Migrant Justice Day – November 22, 2025
People and Planet before Profit
This year, the United Nations Secretary-General confirmed that we have missed the 1.5 °C target. The world is entering an age of escalating storms, floods, droughts and displacement. For millions of people in the Global South, this is not a warning but a lived catastrophe. Climate breakdown is already uprooting lives and tearing apart communities.
People on irregular visas, many of whom have been displaced by climate change, must have a voice in the world’s biggest climate meeting. Their stories show how the climate crisis, forced migration and hostile border policies are all connected. Yet they remain excluded from decisions that determine their futures.
At COP30, fossil fuel companies and the financiers of destruction are still being welcomed into negotiation rooms as “partners”. The same corporations that profit from pollution are shaping policies that determine who gets to live safely and who is left to drown, burn or starve. This is not climate leadership. It is a moral failure.
Meanwhile, billionaires and corporations are funnelling vast sums into movements that attack democracy and fund the far right. These movements target refugees, migrants and racialised communities , the very people most at risk from the inequality and extraction that created this crisis in the first place.
The path forward must be grounded in justice and compassion.
We call for:
- A rapid and just transition away from fossil fuels. Governments must commit to an urgent timeline for ending all new fossil fuel extraction and subsidies.
- People before profit in climate decision-making. Remove fossil fuel corporations and their lobbyists from COP negotiations and ensure communities on the front lines, especially displaced and migrant communities, can lead the discussions that shape their lives.
- Voices for the displaced. Guarantee meaningful participation for people displaced by climate change, including those on irregular visas, in national and international climate processes.
- Democracy, not plutocracy. End the influence of billionaires and corporations who fund far-right movements and block the global transition to equality and safety.
- A compassionate global response to climate displacement. Recognise climate-induced migration as a human rights issue and commit to honest, transparent and humane pathways for protection.Climate change is the defining human rights crisis of our time. Our response must be defined by solidarity, not profit, by protection, not persecution.
This November 22, join us to demand better choices for a world where we put People and Planet before Profit.
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