1. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the UK, and all governments reject Big Polluter sponsorship of the Conference of the Parties and all UNFCCC associated events. In addition, the UNFCCC revokes the ability of polluting corporations and their executives, trade associations, and lobbyists to take part in negotiations, panels, and critical discussions regarding international climate policy. The UNFCCC will implement a conflict of interest policy that ends the obstruction of climate action by greedy and self-serving corporations and governments.

2. Reject false solutions - especially carbon markets in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement - and advance people-led climate solutions that are proven, respect traditional knowledge, practices, wisdom, and resilience of indigenous peoples, women, and local communities, and protect the rights of their lands and territories.

3. Advance a conflict of interest policy at the international, national, and sub-national levels to get Polluters Out. Make Big Polluters - both countries and corporations - pay climate reparations for their historic harms. Center the leadership of frontline communities in determining the scope and type of these reparations.

Climate change first became a concern for world governments in 1992 when the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol mandated that the participants reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 5% between the years 1990-2010. However, due to this being a non-binding agreement, many nations such as the U.S. did not take any proactive measures to cut their emissions. Fast-forward to 2015, when the effects of climate change were becoming impossible to ignore. 195 countries voluntarily committed to an international agreement in Paris to mitigate the effects of climate change and reduce global emissions. The Paris Agreement, signed at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP), saw the fossil fuel industry occupy a major role in inhibiting federal energy taxes, carbon taxes or renewable portfolio standards to be created for each nation in the UN. The lack of structured policy, pluralistic interests, and the power of fossil fuel industries is the reason why these conferences have been occurring longer than most youth climate activists have been alive. Therefore, it is an understatement to say that the Conference of the Parties and other UN Climate Summits have been completely unproductive. The UN has had the monetary and political resources for decades now to put in place policies that could stop the Earth from heating at the fast pace that it is, but they have not. Instead, they’ve resorted to politics and empty promises. COP25 was supposed to be our last chance to change the course of the climate crisis. We are now completely out of chances. If they truly stand for the interests of the people, the UN can no longer bow down to fossil fuel money. This is just the surface. There are polluters who are extracting, exploding and causing devastating ecological destruction in countries around the world. Governments, multinational banks, and even universities are investing in the fossil fuel industry. And in return, the fossil fuel industry is investing in the elections of leaders and politicians worldwide, reaping profits and leaving the people behind to face climate crisis.