Declaration of the People’s Summit towards COP30: A Grassroots Perspective on Solutions to Climate Change
We hear lots abut COP30 on mainstream media but not many of them will tell you about the Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit towards COP30. While the governments and fossil fuel lobbyists met in secret in Belem, Brazil, 70,000 of civil society met in a giant public forum in Belem and crafted a Declaration that is so much more important and meaningful then what will be produced in the official COP.
One thing that was impressive for me as a farmer and event organizer was that their people’s kitchen produced 105,000 meals by a volunteer crew and all the food was fresh, supplied exclusively by family farms and social movements. That story is here: 105,000 meals: The People’s Summit Kitchen is a manifesto of agroecological sovereignty against false climate solutions.
From the People’s Summit manifesto:
Social and popular movements, coalitions, collectives, networks, and civil society organizations from Brazil have been, since August 2023, building a process of convergence among organizations and movements of women, trade unions, indigenous peoples, family farmers and peasants, quilombolas, traditional peoples and communities, African descendant traditional people, Black people, youths, inter-religious groups, environmentalists, workers, media activists, cultural organizations, students, from favelas and peripheries, LGBTQIAPN+ , people with disabilities, human rights defenders , defenders of children and adolescents, intergenerational groups, urban and rural areas, forests and waters, towards the realization of the People’s Summit as an autonomous space regarding the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 30 to be held in the Amazon.
Our goal is to strengthen popular mobilization and converge on unified agendas: socio-environmental, anti-patriarchal, anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist, anti-racist, and rights-based, while respecting their diversities and specificities, united by a future of well-being. In the current context, more than ever, we need to advance in collective spaces that defend democracy and international solidarity, confront the far right, fascism, fundamentalisms, wars, the financialization of nature, and the climate crisis…
Read the rest on the Website of the Peoples’ Summit, here: https://cupuladospovoscop30.org/en/manifesto-2/
