Organized by more than 1,100 civil society organizations, the Summit is expected to bring together more than 30,000 people who will exchange experiences and denounce those who, according to them, are destroying the environment.

“We are starting the People’s Summit… by reinforcing our resistance to the false solutions presented by COP30, which carries with it the mark of projects to destroy nature, pollute rivers, and poison forests,” said Ayala Ferreira, national leader of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST).

Unlike COP30, which focuses on intergovernmental negotiations, the People’s Summit offers a collective environment and dialogues open to the public. Its program is based on six fundamental axes that include historical reparation and environmental racism, just transition, and food sovereignty.

The organizers emphasize that the answers to a sustainable world come from the people of the waters, forests, fields, and peripheries, who resist with their collective, agroecological, and ancestral practices.

However, in a historic event, the Brazilian indigenous movement, with the support of the federal government, ensured massive participation in COP30. As a result of this coordination, nearly 400 indigenous leaders gained access to the official spaces of the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

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