The Global Climate Media Network (GCMN) has urged the global community to ensure climate justice by providing necessary support to developing countries to mitigate climate impacts.

The network, formed during COP29 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, as a global platform for climate journalists to disseminate climate information and ensure fairness, made the call during its first meeting, according to a press release today (December 4).

At the meeting, the GCMN highlighted the “need to ensure appropriate oversight on the global stage so that the developing world honors its commitments to poorer nations for a better and sustainable world.”

Meeting participants expressed dissatisfaction with the results of COP29, saying they fell far short of meeting climate finance targets.

COP29 failed to reach an agreement on how to address the issue of fossil fuels, they lamented.

They hoped the goal of COP30 in Brazil would be to ensure that voluntary commitments expected in 2025 align with the goal of keeping global temperatures below 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, a threshold reflected in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

GCMN head Md Habibur Rahman of Ekattor Television, Bangladesh, chaired the meeting, while Ibrahim Khalilullah of CNN Academy, Bangladesh, served as moderator.

Various civil society leaders including Sharif Jamil, Board Member of Waterkeeper Alliance, Zakir Hossain Khan, CEO of Change Initiative, Professor Kamruzzaman Majumder, Founding Chairman of CAPs, GCMN Member Secretary Borhanul Ashekin of Channel 24 , Elisa Cabiale, editorial ImrontaZero staff, Italy, Mohammad Azizur Rahman of The Financial Express and Shamim Jahangir of JustEnergyNews also spoke at the press conference. GCMN meeting.