Once again, IEN staff and a delegation of allies and front-line grassroots leadership representatives will attend the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP). As we move closer to the events, we offer the following perspectives on the most pressing of challenges we all face. Stay up to date by following our social media, newswire, press releases, and this website for the latest updates and content you can share with your outreach efforts.

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At the UN climate summit, in November 2025, in the Amazon city of Belém in Brazil, the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) is expected to attract much attention. The center piece of the proposal, however, is the Tropical Forest Investment Fund (TFIF).

This new initiative, slated to be launched at the UN Climate Conference in November in Brazil, has been created to supposedly provide funding for forest conservation.

This new (False Solution) is not designed to address the drivers of deforestation, but to benefit investors in financial markets that are actually driving deforestation.

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When the next round of global climate talks (COP30) kicks off in Brazil, it will mark ten years since the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted in 2015 – committing governments to cooperate to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (°C) and to do so in a just and equitable way.

A decade on from the Paris Agreement, fossil fuel extraction and use have continued to rise and hit record levels.

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‘We need involvement’: Indigenous leaders demand change at COP30

Indigenous participation may be highest in the climate conference’s history

by: Gabrielle Nelson

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A New Pledge For Mother Nature

This final session builds on the analysis from the two previous sessions of the 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal held in New York and Toronto.

A new report from the Center for Biological Diversity titled Data Crunch, details how the rapid, fossil-fueled expansion of data centers to serve the AI boom undermines the U.S. climate goals. Ahead of the COP in Brazil, it’s important to analyze and call out the U.S.’s disproportionate responsibility for global data center emissions.

Resources: Report; Press Release

Key report findings include:

The projected buildout of AI data centers — largely powered by fracked gas — could account for 10% of total U.S. emissions and 44% of power-sector emissions allowable under the nation’s 2035 climate target.
Data centers are expected to consume over 12% of U.S. electricity by 2030, forcing other sectors to cut emissions 60% deeper to stay within national climate limits.
Continued reliance on gas and coal risks locking in pollution and electricity price volatility, undermining progress toward Paris Agreement goals and domestic affordability concerns.
If powered by renewables, data centers’ emissions would drop to about 4% of power-sector allowable emissions.

The report encourages the need for strong guardrails — including heightened federal and state regulation of the data center and AI industries, requirements for on-site clean-energy generation and distributed energy resources deployment to free up grid capacity, and integration of AI-related emissions into national climate reporting — to ensure the sector’s rapid growth does not derail U.S. and global climate goals.

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