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🪵SFOC has joined over 120 CSOs, businesses and investors calling for prompt implementation of the #EU Deforestation Regulation. As studies show the continued acceleration of global deforestation, the EUDR serves as a groundbreaking regulation for the protection of forests around the world.   Every minute wasted is another attack on forests and the planet. 🔎 Read the joint statement here: https://lnkd.in/eWkMa85R #ClimateAction #Deforestation #EUDR #Forests #SFOC

Despite concerns surrounding the logistics of hosting the world’s largest climate gathering in Belém, the COP30 Brazil Presidency stood firm in its ambition to deliver a COP with a difference. Our verdict? Brazil has succeeded; just not in the ways most of us expected. Here’s how it all went down, and what COP30's outcomes mean for the future of climate negotiations. #ClimateAction #COP30 #AsiaClimateSolutions #ACSatCOP30 #SFOC #SFOCatCOP30

#COP30, taking place at the edge of the Brazilian Amazon, set out with high hopes, aiming to restore faith in a multilateral system under unprecedented pressure at a moment where climate action is needed more than ever. Two weeks later, the curtain has finally come down, colored by novel initiatives, last-minute deadlocks, extreme weather, a sudden fire and civil society pushback. Highly anticipated calls for an official roadmap to phase out fossil fuels went unanswered in the final Global Mutirão Decision, the latest strike for those long disillusioned with the UN climate process. Yet, there are silver linings. More and more, countries are seeking to deliver palpable climate action, both in and out of the increasingly turbulent #UNFCCC process. The momentum built in the sweltering corridors of COP30’s Blue and Green Zones is bubbling over, and real action is taking shape. In our fourth edition of the #ACS newsletter, we unpack the COP30 outcome package: what it delivered, what it didn’t, and what it means for the future of climate negotiations. #AsiaClimateSolutions #ACS #COP30 #COP #FossilFuels #Mutirão #SFOC

📬 Welcome to the November 2025 edition of SFOC’s global newsletter, [Focus on Climate]. 🌳 COP30 delivered mixed outcomes—incremental moves on climate finance and just transition, but no breakthrough on forests or a fossil-fuel phaseout, leaving ambition well short of a 1.5°C-aligned pathway. ⚠️ Despite support from more than 80 countries, negotiators failed to reach consensus on phasing out fossil fuels, weakening the final text and slowing global momentum on energy transition. 🇰🇷 South Korea unveiled its 2035 climate target and joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance, but its wide NDC range and slow coal-retirement plans signal incrementalism rather than the decisive action science demands. 🔥 On the ground, extreme heat, flooding, and a Blue Zone fire disrupted COP30, underscoring the widening gap between climate impacts and diplomatic progress. 🌎 Outside the venue, more than 50,000 marchers—led by Indigenous organizers including APIB—called for land rights, anti-deforestation action, and climate justice. 📺 K-pop fans rallied at COP30 to demand that Korea stop funding fossil fuels, even as government officials explored using fandom culture to promote climate engagement. #️⃣ The Asia Climate Solutions Pavilion, co-hosted by SFOC and over 60 partners, showcased how Asia can lead on clean energy, industrial decarbonization, and climate finance through cross-regional collaboration. 🚢 A new SFOC report finds Korea’s major shipping companies are setting net-zero goals but still lack investment in clean fuels and fleet upgrades, risking competitiveness as global maritime standards tighten. 👀 We’re also hiring! Open roles in our Seoul and Tokyo offices.

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