The Peoples’ Summit towards COP30 marked its presence at the Global Nyéléni Forum, held in Kandy, Sri Lanka, consolidating a political agreement for the Forum’s agenda to be presented in Belém this November. The participation of the delegation represented a decisive step in international coordination to strengthen the struggles of peoples and social movements in this historic milestone that will be the Peoples’ Summit, from November 12 to 16, 2025.
The delegation took part in meetings with the Forum’s Global Steering Committee and in other discussion spaces. The group included Ivan Gonzales (Trade Union Confederation of the Americas – CSA), Anderson Amaro (Small Farmers’ Movement – MPA / Via Campesina), Líder Góngora (World Forum of Fisher Peoples – WFFP), Bruno Prada (National Articulation for Agroecology – ANA), Kirtana Chandrasekaran (Friends of the Earth International), Sophie Ogutu, and Sarah Moreira (World March of Women).
For Bruno Prada, from the National Articulation for Agroecology, the Nyéléni Forum was a strategic space for the convergence of popular struggles. “The Nyéléni Forum represented an important space for building actions of convergence among social movements around the themes of food sovereignty, agroecology, climate justice, just transition, and feminism, to transform the capitalist, patriarchal, colonialist, racist, and LGBT-phobic system in which we live. Our collective process of building convergence shows us that only together can we construct a more just, equal, and free society, with respect for nature,” he stated.
Speaking directly from Sri Lanka, Líder Góngora Farías, representative of the Peoples of the Mangrove and the Sea at WFFP, reinforced the centrality of unity among peoples in defending human rights and confronting the climate crisis. “From every corner of the world we raise our voices in Belém do Pará: peoples and social movements united for climate justice, the defense of human rights, and global peace. From November 10 to 16, 2025, let us join our voices at the Peoples’ Summit to stop global warming and show that unity is our strength,” he called.
Ivan Gonzales, political coordinator of the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (CSA), highlighted the role of the Nyéléni Forum as a strategic space for the global agenda. “The Nyéléni Forum is an important space to promote what we are building as the Peoples’ Summit towards the COP. It enables us to build dialogues, enrich the Summit’s themes, and articulate its construction, while also linking with the broader international debate. In particular, it reaffirms the need to change the logic of exploitation and wealth accumulation based on fossil fuels, intensive agriculture, agribusiness, and irrational industrial fishing, which directly impact life in both rural and urban areas,” he emphasized.
The delegation’s participation in the Forum is part of a strategy to strengthen ongoing political processes of national and international alliances. The dialogues held in these spaces, with their diversity of representations and countries, feed political syntheses and mobilization towards November 15 – the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice, which will include demonstrations worldwide and culminate in the great march in Belém. In this way, the presence of the Peoples’ Summit at the Nyéléni Forum reinforces the importance of international alliances in building a collective process of resistance and global mobilization, paving the way for November, when peoples, communities, and organizations from all over the world will gather in Belém to share proposals and strengthen common struggles.