Bonn, 16 June 2025. The climate crisis continues to intensify and wreak havoc across the globe, threatening people and the planet. We are halfway through a critical decade to take effective action to equitably phase out fossil fuels and halt deforestation to keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C. 2025 is also the year of a new round of Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement.
The 62st session of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB62) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which begins today in Bonn (Germany), is a stepping stone towards COP30 in Brazil in November.
As a member of the Human Rights & Climate Change Working Group, FIDH co-authored a joint briefing note on three key priorities for the climate agenda in 2025: a just transition rooted in human rights; remedy and reparations for climate harm; and the effective protection of environmental human rights defenders.
In Bonn, it is critical that states signal ambition and take meaningful steps to ground this year’s climate negotiations in a human rights-based, just framework. The UN climate regime will be the strongest when it acts in concert and coherently with the broader international landscape, including human rights obligations.
SB62 can serve as the forum to sow the seeds of consensus and build action at the speed and scale needed to prevent dangerous climate breakdown and its human rights harms.
Read the briefing note here.