Social movements, civil society organizations, networks, and traditional peoples from Brazil and the Global South are preparing the Cúpula dos Povos Rumo à COP 30. The efforts that began in 2023 are being reinforced through participation in COP 29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, and will continue until November 2025, when a large event for around 15,000 people will take place in parallel with COP30. The goal is to pressure governments worldwide, starting from Brazil, to adopt real solutions to address the climate crisis—something that can only be achieved with the leadership of peoples and movements.
The Summit brings together around 400 organizations, including international, national, and local entities, of which 120 have signed the political charter collectively developed in plenaries held since 2023. All of them have a longstanding history of working with communities and traditional peoples who inhabit various biomes sustainably, producing and trading diverse goods using non-intensive, agroecological methods.
The Cúpula serves as a convergence space for these organizations and networks around common agendas. From this confluence, political banners have been developed that are now being advocated in national and international decision-making spaces. These include just climate finance, the fight against false solutions, global governance, effective popular participation, agroecology, and food and nutritional sovereignty and security in the face of the climate crisis.
During COP 29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, representatives of the Cúpula have participated in activities with member organizations leading panels and hosting their own initiatives. In every space occupied, the agendas of climate and social justice are reinforced. On Thursday, the 21st, the National Operational Committee responsible for organizing the Summit will hold its second activity for direct dialogue with new partners.
In a context of growing climate and environmental crisis, Cúpula representatives demand urgent and effective actions to confront the devastating impacts of climate change, especially for the most vulnerable peoples and territories, such as indigenous, Black, feminist, peasant, and peripheral communities who suffer most from floods, extreme droughts, wildfires, and disasters caused by large corporate enterprises.
The Cúpula dos Povos calls for the inclusion of the communities most affected by climate change in global decision-making and reaffirms the need for climate governance that respects human rights, peoples’ sovereignty, and ancestral knowledge.
Path to COP 30: The Fight for a Just Future
The Baku meeting was an opportunity to strengthen unity among member organizations and establish the next steps toward holding an autonomous Summit during COP 30 in Belém in 2025. The aim is to increase pressure on governments, promote sustainable alternatives, and ensure that the voices of peoples most affected by climate change are heard and respected.
The Cúpula dos Povos demands concrete actions to combat the financialization of nature, the destruction of traditional territories, and threats to environmental defenders. Just as the Cúpula dos Povos held in Rio de Janeiro during Rio+20 represented the strength of global civil society at a critical moment in the fight for climate justice, this effort continues that legacy.
With an inclusive agenda encompassing gender, race, class, and origin, the Cúpula proposes real solutions to the climate crisis and demands profound changes to the global economic model. Its realization in Belém, in the Amazon, in 2025 will be a historic milestone in the fight to defend peoples and nature.
The media plays a key role in amplifying these voices and strengthening pressure on governments and corporations to commit to genuinely transformative solutions. Journalists and media outlets are invited to cover the next stages of the Cúpula dos Povos, interview its representatives, and give visibility to the struggle of millions around the world demanding a more just, sustainable, and dignified future for all.
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