Climate Action Requires Truth: COP30 Must Codify Information Integrity

The document is an open letter from Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) and a coalition of 203 organizations and 202 experts. It argues that coordinated disinformation campaigns, primarily funded by the fossil fuel industry, are delaying the energy transition and sabotaging the Paris Agreement goals. The authors call on COP30 participants to move beyond the mere recognition of this threat to mandatory, verifiable actions that hold technology platforms, media, and the advertising sector accountable for the spread of manipulative content.

• Coordinated disinformation campaigns, largely organized and financed by the fossil fuel industry, are used to create a false sense of public apathy and division to derail climate policy and discredit renewable energy solutions.
• Climate disinformation is characterized as a global emergency that threatens public health, human rights, and security by delaying the human response to the climate crisis and making the goals of the Paris Agreement unattainable.
• The authors identify 'Big Tech' and vested-interest media as the primary vehicles for mass-producing and disseminating manipulative content that profits from disinformation.
• The coalition demands that COP30 deliver a mandatory and verifiable decision requiring all Parties to uphold information integrity, moving beyond the current stage of official recognition.

APA

Climate Action Against Disinformation (2025). Climate Action Requires Truth: COP30 Must Codify Information Integrity. https://caad.info/analysis/newsletters/cop-look-listen-issue-03-12-nov-25/

Chicago

Climate Action Against Disinformation. Climate Action Requires Truth: COP30 Must Codify Information Integrity. 2025. https://caad.info/analysis/newsletters/cop-look-listen-issue-03-12-nov-25/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |author=Climate Action Against Disinformation |title=Climate Action Requires Truth: COP30 Must Codify Information Integrity |date=12 November 2025 |url=https://caad.info/analysis/newsletters/cop-look-listen-issue-03-12-nov-25/ |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{climateactionagainstdisinformation2025climate, author = {{Climate Action Against Disinformation}}, title = {{Climate Action Requires Truth: COP30 Must Codify Information Integrity}}, publisher = {Climate Action Against Disinformation}, year = {2025}, month = nov, url = {https://caad.info/analysis/newsletters/cop-look-listen-issue-03-12-nov-25/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }