Protect the Land, Tax the Polluters: Activists Demand Climate Action at COP30
COP30 Summit in Belém: Indigenous Sovereignty, Climate Justice, and the Amazon Crossroads
Discover why this year's COP30 in the Amazon gateway city of Belém is critical for Indigenous sovereignty and climate justice, highlighting massive civil society mobilization against extractive industries.
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- Civil society presence is strong at COP30 because it is hosted in a democracy, unlike three previous restrictive locations.
- Indigenous peoples are leading the pressure, demanding land demarcation and an end to mining and fossil fuel extraction on their lands.
- Key demands include direct climate finance for Indigenous communities and recognition of their role as forest guardians.
- The context of the Amazon at a "tipping point" is driven directly by policies supporting extraction and land grabbing.
This report captures high-level discussions from COP30 in Belém, Brazil, focusing on the crucial role of frontline communities. Speakers detail the immediate threats of rising heat and deforestation while advocating for policies centered on climate justice, demanding that wealthy polluters finance reparations and that extractive industries be halted.
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Top Comments (10)
What a beautiful conversation so thanku Amy and your guests from Oxfam Brazil and Amazon watch. Yes taxing the rich polluters to support and protect indigenous people AND Mother Earth- ridiculous and embarrassing that trumpregime refuses to acknowledge not only climate change but to take responsibility for exploiting polluting colonizing mineral rich regions of our planet. Keep US mining interests OUT of the global South.
Great to see Amy Goodman in Brazil
I watched a documentary about ta secluded tribe, when the people described how the rivers were before mining. it gave me rage. the rivers in the Amazon are murky mostlty because of the inmense mining industry that is destroying the ground, polluting the rivers and killing the fish especies. also, deforestations, pushing the tribes who are protected having to deal with criminals and abusers who destroy their land. the wildlife and forest are in peril.
OMG, you are in Belém! Welcome and good work!
Funny thing is that the Super Rich think they're exempt from the fallout of all this pollution. Lol, the joke will be on them!
Approximately 50% of emissions came from the USA, Russia and Europe alone (since 1850). Shouldn't they at least pay for half of the climate bill?
We need a unifying force. I'm a Planetarian. Our creed is pro people and planet.
That's exactly right that's where all the money went went to some person instead of being allocated to neutralize the impact of the commercial activity. What a joke some punk wants to take $1 trillion. I don't think he sold that many cars where did all this come from lithium mining? He said it was like printing money, but it can't be worth that much as it destroys the place.
Very good reporting, Thank You
Hello thaks you pela visita a Belém do Pará
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Top Comments (10)
What a beautiful conversation so thanku Amy and your guests from Oxfam Brazil and Amazon watch. Yes taxing the rich polluters to support and protect indigenous people AND Mother Earth- ridiculous and embarrassing that trumpregime refuses to acknowledge not only climate change but to take responsibility for exploiting polluting colonizing mineral rich regions of our planet. Keep US mining interests OUT of the global South.
Great to see Amy Goodman in Brazil
I watched a documentary about ta secluded tribe, when the people described how the rivers were before mining. it gave me rage. the rivers in the Amazon are murky mostlty because of the inmense mining industry that is destroying the ground, polluting the rivers and killing the fish especies. also, deforestations, pushing the tribes who are protected having to deal with criminals and abusers who destroy their land. the wildlife and forest are in peril.
OMG, you are in Belém! Welcome and good work!
Funny thing is that the Super Rich think they're exempt from the fallout of all this pollution. Lol, the joke will be on them!
Approximately 50% of emissions came from the USA, Russia and Europe alone (since 1850). Shouldn't they at least pay for half of the climate bill?
We need a unifying force. I'm a Planetarian. Our creed is pro people and planet.
That's exactly right that's where all the money went went to some person instead of being allocated to neutralize the impact of the commercial activity. What a joke some punk wants to take $1 trillion. I don't think he sold that many cars where did all this come from lithium mining? He said it was like printing money, but it can't be worth that much as it destroys the place.
Very good reporting, Thank You
Hello thaks you pela visita a Belém do Pará