{"id":33,"date":"2025-11-12T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inej.org\/?p=33"},"modified":"2025-11-13T16:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:10:10","slug":"a-wave-of-truth-cop30-targets-disinformation-threat-to-climate-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inej.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/a-wave-of-truth-cop30-targets-disinformation-threat-to-climate-action\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A wave of truth\u2019: COP30 targets disinformation threat to climate action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>By Felipe de Carvalho, in Bel\u00e9m<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><time datetime=\"2025-11-12T12:00:00Z\">12 November 2025<\/time><\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/news\/topic\/climate-change\">Climate and Environment<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Negotiators in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil, opened COP30 with a stark warning: the race to avert catastrophic global heating is being sabotaged by a surge of climate disinformation. The falsehoods, spreading faster than ever online, threaten to derail fragile progress on climate action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazil\u2019s President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva set the tone at the opening session, declaring that the battle for truth has become just as critical as the fight to cut emissions.&nbsp;COP30 must mark \u201ca new defeat for climate denialists,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, 12 nations \u2013 including Brazil, Canada, France, Germany and Spain \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/news\/countries-seal-landmark-declaration-at-cop30-marking-first-time-information-integrity-is-prioritized\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">signed onto<\/a>&nbsp;the first-ever Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change, pledging to fight back against the flood of false content and protect those on the frontlines of truth: environmental journalists, scientists and researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The declaration, unveiled under the Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change, calls for concrete steps to dismantle networks of climate lies and shield evidence-based voices from harassment and attacks. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2025\/11\/1166351\">Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;By Felipe de Carvalho, in Bel\u00e9m 12 November 2025&nbsp;Climate and Environment Negotiators in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil, opened COP30 with a stark warning: the race to avert catastrophic global heating is being sabotaged by a surge of climate disinformation. The falsehoods, spreading faster than ever online, threaten to derail fragile progress on climate action. Brazil\u2019s President Luiz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change-news","category-environmental-news","category-partners-news","category-un-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/inej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}