Post-COP30 Convening

Uneven Starting Points in the Energy Transition

Participants emphasised that the just energy transition does not begin from equal baselines. Many communities still lack access to electricity, rely on biomass energy, and remain excluded from energy governance processes. Context-sensitive strategies are therefore essential.

Climate Finance: Inadequate and Reactive

Climate financing was identified as insufficient and reactive. Participants called for ring-fenced national budgets and predictable adaptation funding mechanisms.

Public Debt as a Structural Constraint

High debt servicing—often consuming 30–40% of national budgets—limits fiscal space for climate action. Climate justice is closely linked to debt justice and fiscal sovereignty.

Extractives as a Highly Guarded Sector

The extractive sector remains opaque, with limited access to contracts, financial disclosures, and community benefit frameworks. Exclusion often escalates into criminalisation of artisanal miners.

Systematic Exclusion and Gendered Impacts

Women, youth, persons with disabilities, and frontline communities face structural exclusion. Climate shocks disproportionately increase unpaid care burdens and deepen vulnerability.

Day Two: From Structural Diagnosis to Coordinated Action

Day Two transitioned from analytical reflection to structured action planning. Building on the insights generated through the previous day’s panel discussions, participants engaged in facilitated group exercises designed to translate diagnosis into practical, coordinated interventions. Working collaboratively, participants identified priority areas, defined strategic entry points, and agreed on principles to guide future regional collaboration. The discussions were solution-oriented, focusing on how civil society actors could align efforts, strengthen participation, and influence policy and budget processes at national and regional levels. The themes below reflect the consolidated outcomes of those group exercises.

Priority Area: Inclusive Participation & Negotiation Capacity

Participants agreed that meaningful participation requires structured interventions grounded in evidence, capacity strengthening, and targeted advocacy.

Mapping, Analysis & Needs Assessment

Stakeholder mapping and gender-responsive needs assessments were identified as foundational to ensure inclusive and costed participation strategies.

Communities require rights literacy and negotiation skills. CSOs require coordinated positions and technical literacy. Strategic engagement with duty bearers strengthens accountability.

Advocacy, Domestic Financing & Accountability

Policy gap analysis, parliamentary engagement, budget advocacy, and litigation were identified as tools to translate evidence into systemic influence.

Regional Climate Justice Agenda

Participants agreed to build a coordinated, flexible regional agenda grounded in co-creation, inclusivity, and strategic collaboration rather than a rigid network structure.

Overall Convening Outcomes

The convening concluded with a shared commitment to advance a coordinated, evidence-driven, feminist-informed regional climate justice agenda grounded in accountability, inclusion, domestic financing, and community power.