GLOBAL ACCOUNTABILITY ACCORD: SIGN FOR YOUR ORGANISATION TODAY

Now is the time for accountability: For all children, our planet, our future

“We have passed the era of wanting to have a polite discussion about abstract climate action and finance behind closed doors. My people’s source of livelihood is beyond threatened, they have been wiped away. The land is poisoned, the waters are empty, and our survival is on the line. True action and solidarity can no longer be words, it must be accountability.”
Mene, Father from the Niger Delta – Parents For Future Nigeria.

Children are paying the gravest price for years of climate denial, inaction and delays. Parents across the globe are furious, united and organising.

The road to 2.8°C is not the only road: this Accord lays out a different pathway. And parents from 39 countries and all continents are ready to hold decision makers to account for delivering every part.

This is not a plea. It is a pathway setting out what must be done. For ALL our children - for a safer, healthier, more sustainable environment.

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1. Fast, Fair, Funded fossil fuel phase-out

Deliver the transition away from coal, oil and gas that COP30 left unfinished, with no new fossil fuel expansion anywhere and national 2035 pledges aligned with 1.5°C.

Every new pipeline, mine and drilling site is a bill families across the world will pay in heat, floods, pollution, hunger, loss of livelihoods and lives.. #GetBackTo1Point5

No more false solutions Re-route from unproven offsets, geoengineering gambles, and waste-to-methane accounting tricks.

Apply conflict-of-interest rules to the UNFCCC, now. Fossil fuel lobbyists do not belong in COP negotiating rooms and must not not determine the future of all children.

There can be no more debate on the cost of the transition, without accounting for the cost of not acting on the measures under review. For small island nations of the Pacific, the cost of cumulative damages without accelerated adaptation could reach as high as US$476 billion by 2050.

2. Treat the El Niño hunger emergency as the test of this COP

Act on Food Security with the urgency of the crisis in front of us: fund anticipatory action before the peak of impacts, not after the images of starving children appear.

Ensure every country prepares with stockpiles to support their citizens and protect smallholder farmers, who grow most of the world's food, with finance and support that reaches them directly.

Response after famine has begun is failure.

3. Deliver climate finance that is ambitious and grant-based. Funded by the polluters who cause and profit from the harm  

The $300 billion-a-year goal set in Baku is a fraction of need and a fraction of fairness. Commit to a finance path in the trillions, weighted to grants not debt, so that no family is forced to choose between rebuilding a home and educating or feeding a child. Money must reach communities, indigenous groups, women-led groups and parents' organisations on the ground, not consultancies.

4. Adaptation for every family, in every city and every village

Doubling adaptation finance and anchoring the Climate-Resilient Cities theme in what children actually need: safe food, clean water, heat and flood-proofed schools, clinics that stay open in disasters, and early warning that reaches every phone in every language. Adaptation is not infrastructure alone. It is childhood made survivable.

5. COUNT THE COST OF WAR: Peace is climate action:

No child should face bombs and drought in the same childhood, yet war and climate collapse now arrive together, and each makes the other worse. Peace for our children and a stable planet are one demand, not two.

War poisons and destroys the land, water, soil and infrastructure that families need to survive a changing climate; it displaces whole communities and strips them of the means to adapt; and the climate finance that should be building resilience is instead diverted to militarisation and destruction. Yet the war machine itself is hidden from climate accountability: the world's militaries and their supply chains are estimated to account for roughly 5.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, which would make them the 4th largest emitter if counted as a country.

We demand an end to this silence: full, transparent and compulsory reporting of military emissions; real reduction targets that put the war machine inside national climate plans rather than outside them; climate finance and adaptation that reach conflict-affected, displaced and occupied communities rather than bypassing them; and the protection of environmental and climate advocates who speak about this.

6. Put children's rights inside the text, not beside it

Every decision at COP31 must be assessed against the rights of the child.

This COP must be about protecting the right of our children to survive and develop. This general principle of the UNCRC should be written into every climate decision in every board room and policy; with real, legal consequences for those who fail.

Together with the right to a clean, healthy, sustainable, safe and peaceful environment. Alongside protection from climate-driven hunger, displacement and polluted air; climate education should be in every national curriculum; and guaranteed roles for young people and parents in national climate planning.

7. Justice between our halves of the world

The Global North must meet its historical carbon responsibility: steeper cuts at home, no offshoring of emissions through supply chains, and no capture of climate finance as loans and export credits. The same system that heated the planet has exploited the Global South for centuries through imperialism and capitalism, and it cannot be allowed to keep doing it under a green banner. No loopholes from past government agreements. Make your accounting include the right of our children to survive and develop.

8. A seat and a voice for parents

Recognise parents as a formal constituency in the UNFCCC process. We are the constituency with the longest stake in this negotiation and the least voice in it. Children and Youth are working towards a seat at the table, and as we represent approximately half of the global population, parents need a recognised seat too.

A pathway towards a stable future

Parents are accountable to our children. As world leaders, you safeguard the conditions our children need for a future worth living. It is our job, therefore, to make sure you do yours. So far, we have found you lacking. As we are headed towards a 2.8C hotter world, and with time running out to prevent irreversible climate breakdown, we present to you this Accountability Accord. Join us on the path towards a livable, just, and peaceful world.  

Murat Kurum, President of COP 31, closed his opening address quoting Rumi: ‘yesterday has gone with yesterday; now it is time for new things’. We agree.

Now is the time for accountability.

Antalya, November 2026.

Signed: parent climate groups and allies across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, North America, the Middle East, and the Pacific islands.