Global Climate March | COP30
- Suore Pastorelle
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The Strength and Outcry of Organized Society at COP30
Organized by the People's Summit, representatives from six continents (America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and Antarctica) were present at the Global Climate March in Belém, Pará, on the day of the Proclamation of the Republic of Brazil (November 15th). A date that, in itself, already raises numerous sociocultural, economic, and environmental reflections.
The force of civil society, with approximately 70,000 participants, marched almost 5km along the main roads of Belém, Pará, demanding concrete government action in the face of the climate crisis that plagues humanity and is a result of unchecked capitalist practices.
The Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva; the Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara; and representatives of social movements from Brazil coordinated the march from the main sound truck, calling on participants to become protagonists in the defense of our Common Home and a new economy.
For Marina Silva, democracy allowed COP30 to welcome the demands and cries for life from all the world's populations. “After other COPs, in which social demonstrations only took place within official UN spaces, in Brazil, in the Global South, in a consolidated democracy, we can occupy the streets. COP30 allows the meeting of the peripheries, the waters, the cities, the fields, the forests. Places that face climate change. Despite our challenges and contradictions, we have to map out the path to a just transition and end our dependence on fossil fuels.”
The themes that stood out in the March will be presented in photos, which elucidated the suffering, the struggle, the persistence, the dream and the strength of social organizations in Brazil and the world.
Miriam de Souza
