Final declaration of the Peoples’ Summit towards COP30

The 'Final declaration of the Peoples’ Summit towards COP30' is a statement issued by a gathering of over 70,000 people in Belém do Pará, Brazil, in November 2025. The document identifies the capitalist mode of production and transnational corporations as the primary drivers of the climate crisis and calls for a 'just, sovereign and popular transition' based on the recognition of common goods, ancestral knowledge, and feminist justice.

• The document identifies the capitalist mode of production and the logic of financial capital as the primary causes of the global climate crisis and environmental problems.
• Transnational corporations in the mining, energy, arms, agribusiness, and Big Tech sectors, acting in collusion with global North governments, are cited as the actors most responsible for and benefiting from the climate catastrophe.
• The summit argues that the current energy transition is flawed because it follows capitalist logic, resulting in new opportunities for capital accumulation without reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
• The declaration rejects 'false market solutions' and financialised programmes like the TFFF, asserting that air, water, land, forests, minerals, and energy sources are common goods that should not be private property.
• The document demands a shift in climate governance to include the leadership of indigenous and local peoples, the demarcation of their territories, and the implementation of popular agrarian reform and agroecology to ensure food sovereignty.
• The summit calls for the redirection of military spending toward the repair of climate-affected regions and demands an end to the genocide in Palestine and the 'imperial presence' of the United States in the Caribbean Sea.
• The declaration emphasizes feminist justice, arguing that the work of reproducing life is essential for planetary survival and must be valued as work and shared by the state and society.
• The document demands that international climate financing bypass institutions like the IMF and World Bank to avoid deepening North-South inequalities, and calls for the global North to pay its 'socio-environmental debt'.

APA

Fandel, G. (2025). Final declaration of the Peoples’ Summit towards COP30. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/final-declaration-of-the-peoples-summit-towards-cop30/

Chicago

Fandel, Ghislaine. Final declaration of the Peoples’ Summit towards COP30. Friends of the Earth International, 2025. https://www.foei.org/final-declaration-of-the-peoples-summit-towards-cop30/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{fandel2025final, author = {Fandel, Ghislaine}, title = {{Final declaration of the Peoples’ Summit towards COP30}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2025}, month = dec, url = {https://www.foei.org/final-declaration-of-the-peoples-summit-towards-cop30/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }