Climate Action Requires Truth: COP30 Must Codify Information Integrity

The document argues that coordinated disinformation campaigns, primarily funded by the fossil fuel industry and disseminated via Big Tech and media, are delaying the energy transition and threatening public health and human rights. It calls for COP30 in Belém to move beyond the mere recognition of this issue to mandatory, verifiable actions and regulatory measures against the monetization of disinformation and greenwashing.

• Coordinated disinformation campaigns, largely organized and financed by the fossil fuel industry, are used to create a false sense of public apathy and division, which slows the energy transition and derails climate policy.
• Climate disinformation is characterized as a global emergency that directly threatens public health by delaying action and threatens human rights and security by eroding trust in institutions and obstructing life-saving transitions.
• The authors identify Big Tech and vested-interest media as the primary vehicles for mass-producing manipulative content, arguing that governments must use legislative and regulatory powers to stop the monetization of disinformation and greenwashing.
• The letter demands that COP30 deliver a mandatory, verifiable decision to uphold information integrity, building on the Global Initiative on Information Integrity for Climate Change and the Global Digital Compact.

APA

Kurdi, L. (2025). Climate Action Requires Truth: COP30 Must Codify Information Integrity. Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. https://cape.ca/open-letter_climate-action-requires-truth-cop30-must-codify-information-integrity/

Chicago

Kurdi, Loujain. Climate Action Requires Truth: COP30 Must Codify Information Integrity. Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, 2025. https://cape.ca/open-letter_climate-action-requires-truth-cop30-must-codify-information-integrity/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{kurdi2025climate, author = {Kurdi, Loujain}, title = {{Climate Action Requires Truth: COP30 Must Codify Information Integrity}}, publisher = {Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment}, year = {2025}, month = nov, url = {https://cape.ca/open-letter_climate-action-requires-truth-cop30-must-codify-information-integrity/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }