Social and popular movements, coalitions, collectives, networks, and civil society organizations from Brazil have been, since August 2023, building a process of convergence among organizations and movements of women, trade unions, indigenous peoples, family farmers and peasants, quilombolas, traditional peoples and communities, African descendant traditional people, Black people, youths, inter-religious groups, environmentalists, workers, media activists, cultural organizations, students, from favelas and peripheries, LGBTQIAPN+ , people with disabilities, human rights defenders , defenders of children and adolescents, intergenerational groups, urban and rural areas, forests and waters, towards the realization of the People’s Summit as an autonomous space regarding the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 30 to be held in the Amazon.
Our goal is to strengthen popular mobilization and converge on unified agendas: socio-environmental, anti-patriarchal, anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist, anti-racist, and rights-based, while respecting their diversities and specificities, united by a future of well-being. In the current context, more than ever, we need to advance in collective spaces that defend democracy and international solidarity, confront the far right, fascism, fundamentalisms, wars, the financialization of nature, and the climate crisis.
Extreme weather, droughts, floods, landslides, and false climate solutions serve as instruments for deepening inequality and environmental and climate injustices, particularly in territories, and cruelly impact those who have contributed the least to the climate, ecological, and civilizational crisis.
The inadequacy of measures to address these crises is alarming. Countries and decision-makers have been negligent or have presented ineffective solutions, putting the 1.5º target of the Paris Agreement at risk. Investments that fuel climate change have increased in recent years, and policies protecting indigenous peoples and traditional populations have been dismantled, with their leaders threatened and murdered.
Real solutions are urgent, and civil society worldwide must be at the forefront in all spaces of debate on this agenda. COP 30 needs to represent a turning point in this scenario and address the necessary actions to tackle the climate crisis.
It is necessary to review the current economic model and eliminate the production and burning of fossil fuels, responsible for over ⅔ of emissions causing global warming, as well as implement policies for zero deforestation. International agreements for a just energy transition are urgent, starting with the wealthiest, in addition to holding accountable the impacts caused by transnational corporations of agribusiness, mining, the energy sector, real estate, and infrastructure, which currently threaten local populations.
It is urgent to intensify the fight against organized crime, paramilitary groups, and carbon traders, which are increasingly establishing themselves in various territories, to combat threats and provide protection and rights guarantees to environmental and human rights defenders, with attention to the ratification of the Escazú Agreement and other crucial agreements, is essential.
A just, popular, and inclusive transition is fundamental; the right to land and territory through urban, agrarian, and land reform; the demarcation, titling, and regularization of indigenous, quilombola, fishing, and traditional territories; the establishment of food systems with a focus on food sovereignty, promoting agroecology, valuing family, peasant, and artisanal fishing production, as well as indigenous, solidarity, and feminist economies; the recognition of nature as a subject of rights; the protection of oceanic areas, rare land, and coastal zones; the protection of biodiversity; the generation of decent work, employment, and income, and care policies; the consolidation of the right to the city with urban policies as environmental policies; the implementation of specific policies for climate-affected people; access to potable water and basic sanitation; climate prevention and adaptation, especially in urban peripheries and indigenous and traditional territories; the eradication of environmental and structural racism, and violence against women and girls, different cultures and worldviews; promotion of free communication and cultural diversity; policies for Black youth alive; and measures for reparations and democratization of fair climate financing, outside of the carbon market and debt, with the structuring of funds and governance by communities.
We demand that the Brazilian government take a leadership role in the socio-environmental agenda by adopting these policies, which are essential for advancing climate justice from the Global South.
However, none of this will happen without broad pressure and effective participation of civil society. We call upon organizations, networks, collectives, and social movements from various sectors to build the People’s Summit towards COP 30, capable of mobilizing public opinion, strengthening participatory and popular democracy, denouncing and blocking setbacks, as well as pressuring decision-makers in Brazil and around the world.
Social and popular movements, coalitions, collectives, networks, and civil society organizations from Brazil have been, since August 2023, building a process of convergence among organizations and movements of women, trade unions, indigenous peoples, family farmers and peasants, quilombolas, traditional peoples and communities, African descendant traditional people, Black people, youths, inter-religious groups, environmentalists, workers, media activists, cultural organizations, students, from favelas and peripheries, LGBTQIAPN+ , people with disabilities, human rights defenders , defenders of children and adolescents, intergenerational groups, urban and rural areas, forests and waters, towards the realization of the People’s Summit as an autonomous space regarding the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 30 to be held in the Amazon.
Our goal is to strengthen popular mobilization and converge on unified agendas: socio-environmental, anti-patriarchal, anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist, anti-racist, and rights-based, while respecting their diversities and specificities, united by a future of well-being. In the current context, more than ever, we need to advance in collective spaces that defend democracy and international solidarity, confront the far right, fascism, fundamentalisms, wars, the financialization of nature, and the climate crisis.
Extreme weather, droughts, floods, landslides, and false climate solutions serve as instruments for deepening inequality and environmental and climate injustices, particularly in territories, and cruelly impact those who have contributed the least to the climate, ecological, and civilizational crisis.
The inadequacy of measures to address these crises is alarming. Countries and decision-makers have been negligent or have presented ineffective solutions, putting the 1.5º target of the Paris Agreement at risk. Investments that fuel climate change have increased in recent years, and policies protecting indigenous peoples and traditional populations have been dismantled, with their leaders threatened and murdered.
Real solutions are urgent, and civil society worldwide must be at the forefront in all spaces of debate on this agenda. COP 30 needs to represent a turning point in this scenario and address the necessary actions to tackle the climate crisis.
It is necessary to review the current economic model and eliminate the production and burning of fossil fuels, responsible for over ⅔ of emissions causing global warming, as well as implement policies for zero deforestation. International agreements for a just energy transition are urgent, starting with the wealthiest, in addition to holding accountable the impacts caused by transnational corporations of agribusiness, mining, the energy sector, real estate, and infrastructure, which currently threaten local populations.
It is urgent to intensify the fight against organized crime, paramilitary groups, and carbon traders, which are increasingly establishing themselves in various territories, to combat threats and provide protection and rights guarantees to environmental and human rights defenders, with attention to the ratification of the Escazú Agreement and other crucial agreements, is essential.
A just, popular, and inclusive transition is fundamental; the right to land and territory through urban, agrarian, and land reform; the demarcation, titling, and regularization of indigenous, quilombola, fishing, and traditional territories; the establishment of food systems with a focus on food sovereignty, promoting agroecology, valuing family, peasant, and artisanal fishing production, as well as indigenous, solidarity, and feminist economies; the recognition of nature as a subject of rights; the protection of oceanic areas, rare land, and coastal zones; the protection of biodiversity; the generation of decent work, employment, and income, and care policies; the consolidation of the right to the city with urban policies as environmental policies; the implementation of specific policies for climate-affected people; access to potable water and basic sanitation; climate prevention and adaptation, especially in urban peripheries and indigenous and traditional territories; the eradication of environmental and structural racism, and violence against women and girls, different cultures and worldviews; promotion of free communication and cultural diversity; policies for Black youth alive; and measures for reparations and democratization of fair climate financing, outside of the carbon market and debt, with the structuring of funds and governance by communities.
We demand that the Brazilian government take a leadership role in the socio-environmental agenda by adopting these policies, which are essential for advancing climate justice from the Global South.
However, none of this will happen without broad pressure and effective participation of civil society. We call upon organizations, networks, collectives, and social movements from various sectors to build the People’s Summit towards COP 30, capable of mobilizing public opinion, strengthening participatory and popular democracy, denouncing and blocking setbacks, as well as pressuring decision-makers in Brazil and around the world.
We have organized our causes into four main pillars, addressing the challenges we face and the solutions we can collectively build, while emphasizing the diversity of our peoples and the urgency of taking action now.
We have organized our causes into four main pillars, addressing the challenges we face and the solutions we can collectively build, while emphasizing the diversity of our peoples and the urgency of taking action now.
