Belém (PA), November 16, 2025 — The People’s Summit Toward COP30 concluded its program today, the 16th, in Belém (PA), by delivering to the President of COP30, Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, a letter of strong political substance, collectively built by movements, organizations, and networks articulated over months of preparatory meetings and five intense days of debates and mobilizations in the streets and rivers of the Amazonian city.
The document expresses the unity of Indigenous peoples, traditional communities, Quilombola communities, fishers, extractivists, babaçu coconut breakers, peasants, urban workers, youth, women’s movements, the LGBTQIAPN+ population, trade unions, residents of peripheral neighborhoods, and activists from all biomes. According to the text, this collective process affirms the commitment to building a just and democratic world, grounded in buen vivir and the strength of diversity.
The letter denounces that the climate crisis is being deepened by the advance of the far right, fascism, and wars, and states that countries of the Global North, transnational corporations, and economic elites are primarily responsible for the multiple environmental and social crises. It strongly condemns the genocide of the Palestinian people and expresses active solidarity with peoples resisting imperial projects, militarization, and violations of their territories.
The text also reaffirms a vision that places care work at the center of life, recognizing feminism as an essential part of the response to the crises. The ancestral wisdom of Indigenous peoples, the creativity of territories, and the spiritual strength that guides struggles appear as foundations for real, rooted solutions.
The COP30 President, André Corrêa do Lago, received the letter at a moment when he concludes his own cycle of messages to Brazilian and international society, emphasizing the need for the COP to be not only a space for words, but for concrete action in the face of the climate emergency. He committed to forwarding the document through the official spaces of the Climate Conference.
Among the voices echoing in this process is that of Chief Raoni Metuktire, who, during the People’s Summit and COP30 programming, once again warned that life on Earth depends on protecting the Amazon and that the destruction of the forest compromises the future of all humanity.
“Once again, I ask everyone that we may continue this mission of defending life on Earth, on the planet. I want us to maintain this continuity of struggle, so that we can fight those who want harm, those who want to destroy our land,” said Raoni.
The Final Letter reinforces the commitment to popular internationalism, solidarity among territories, and the construction of an International Movement of People Affected by dams, socio-environmental crimes, and the impacts of the climate crisis. For the movements, only the global organization of peoples will be able to confront the structures that fuel inequalities, violence, and environmental collapse. The message is clear. When organization is strong, the struggle is strong. It is time to move forward with greater unity and awareness to confront the common enemy and defend life.
Proposals presented by the People’s Summit include confronting all false market-based solutions and affirming that air, forests, waters, lands, minerals, and energy are commons, not commodities; guaranteeing participation and leadership of peoples in building climate solutions, with full recognition of ancestral knowledge; demarcating and protecting Indigenous lands and traditional territories and ensuring zero-deforestation policies, ecological restoration, and recovery of degraded areas; implementing popular agrarian reform and strengthening agroecology as a path to food sovereignty and the fight against hunger; confronting environmental racism and building just cities with housing, sanitation, land regularization, dignified public transport, and access to water and green spaces; ensuring popular participation in the formulation of urban climate policies and stopping the commodification of life in cities; defending an end to wars and militarization and redirecting resources currently allocated to the arms sector toward reparations for regions affected by the climate crisis; demanding full reparations for losses and damages caused by mining, fossil fuels, dams, and environmental disasters, with corporate accountability; valuing care work and recognizing its centrality to sustaining human and non-human life, ensuring autonomy and feminist justice; building a just, popular, and sovereign energy transition, with protection of territories and overcoming energy poverty; defending an end to fossil fuel extraction and creating mechanisms to prevent its expansion, especially in the Amazon and sensitive ecosystems; taxing large corporations and great fortunes and ensuring public financing for a just transition, holding accountable the sectors that profit most from the crisis; rejecting climate finance models that reinforce inequalities and defending transparent and democratic structures that recognize the socio-environmental debt of the Global North; strengthening protection for human rights and environmental defenders and confronting the criminalization of social movements; and creating legally binding international instruments to hold transnational corporations accountable for human rights and environmental violations and fully implementing peasants’ rights as a pillar of climate governance.
Read the full letter HERE.