Paula Schitine
07/02/2025 3:53 pm
The People’s Summit Toward COP30 met throughout the week in Rio de Janeiro to expand national and international mobilization strategies. The main objective was to define the direction of the Summit’s international advocacy toward the 30th United Nations Conference on Climate Change, which will take place in Belém, Pará, in November this year.
The city of Rio de Janeiro holds fundamental importance, as it previously hosted Rio 92 and Rio+20, conferences and key spaces for global environmental, climate, and social debates. On Tuesday (4), the Mobilization of Peoples for Land and Climate was organized during the Political-Cultural Act held at Cinelândia, in downtown Rio de Janeiro. On the 3rd and 4th, the meeting of the operational group of the People’s Summit also took place, with the participation of representatives of movements from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe, who discussed strategies for influencing climate negotiations on the road to COP30.
Around 500 representatives of social movements from different parts of the world were present. Representing FASE were Executive Director Letícia Tura, Coordinator of the Policy and Alternatives Unit (NuPA) Maureen Santos, and Coordinator of FASE Amazonia Sara Pereira.
“At this meeting, the key understanding was that there is no way to promote climate justice without promoting social justice. So this is not only an environmental or climate discussion, it is above all about the reality of peoples,” said Sara Pereira. “It is important that the population understands this and places itself in this struggle for a transition not only of the energy matrix, but of the economic matrix, a model built from the initiatives of peoples from urban peripheries, quilombos, the countryside, the waters, and the forest, not only in Brazil, not only in the Amazon, but across all continents and throughout global civil society,” summarized the Coordinator of FASE Amazonia.
The People’s Summit Toward COP30 is a process of convergence among organizations and movements of women, trade unions, Indigenous peoples, family farmers and peasants, quilombola communities, traditional peoples and communities, peoples of African-based traditions, Black communities, youth, interfaith groups, environmentalists, workers, independent media activists, cultural workers, students, residents of favelas and urban peripheries, LGBTQIAPN+ communities, persons with disabilities, human rights defenders, advocates for children, adolescents and intergenerational justice, from cities, the countryside, forests, and waters, toward the realization of the People’s Summit as an autonomous space in relation to COP30.
The space has been organized since August 2023 and brings together social and popular movements, coalitions, collectives, networks, and civil society organizations from Brazil. Its objective is to strengthen popular organizing and converge unity agendas across socio-environmental, anti-patriarchal, anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, anti-racist, and rights-based struggles, respecting their diversity and specificities, united by a future of well-being and buen vivir.
FASE is one of the organizations building the People’s Summit through the networks in which it operates, such as the National Agroecology Articulation (ANA), the Carta de Belém Group, and the Pan-Amazonian Social Forum. It is also present in the Amazon, where it has worked for 30 years alongside Indigenous peoples, traditional communities, riverside populations, and peoples of the countryside, forests, waters, and cities.
FASE communicator
Originally published on the FASE portal HERE