Date: 18/11/25
Time: 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Location: Side Event Room 6 (Hangar), Blue Zone.
PARALLEL EVENT | THE REAL LEADERS OF THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE: Frontline Social Movements Defending Climate and Social Justice.
The People’s Summit toward COP30, which brought together more than 24,000 participants and mobilized 70,000 people in the streets of Belém during the Climate Justice March, will hold an official parallel event in the COP30 Blue Zone, bringing the voices of territories and social movements that, in practice, are building the struggle for life, climate, and social justice.
After a historic mobilization involving hundreds of Indigenous, Quilombola, riverside, coastal, trade union, feminist, youth, children’s, and popular organizations from around the world, this gathering inside COP30 will be a space to collectively reinforce the political outcomes of the Summit, deepen the meaning of the People’s Summit Declaration, and project the central struggles on the road toward COP30.
PANEL PROGRAM
Moderator: Pablo Neri – Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
Spokespeople — People’s Summit Declaration:
Nilce Pontes – National Coordination for the Articulation of Black Rural Quilombola Communities (CONAQ)
Roquin Siongo (Grassroots Global Justice / Micronesia Climate Alliance – Pacific)
Sophie Dowlar (World March of Women)
Spokespeople — What lies ahead:
Auricélia Arapiun – Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB)
Jesús Vázquez (La Vía Campesina)