Thousands of leftists from a number of worldwide organizations on Sunday marched via the streets of the Brazilian metropolis of Belém, Pará, demanding “local weather motion” because the COP30 local weather alarmism convention continues.
Participants on the occasion – which, in accordance to Brazil’s state-owned outlet Agência Brasil, had some 70,000 attendees – reportedly demanded an finish to using fossil fuels and that “wealthy nations” fund a “simply transition” inexperienced local weather mission. Participants additionally used the venue to assault President Donald Trump for his refusal to stick to the worldwide local weather agenda, along with a litany of different generally repeated worldwide leftist calls for.
Flavio Pinto participates in a local weather protest holding cash with President Donald Trump’s face on it throughout the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, November 15, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
The occasion was collectively organized by “The People’s Summit” and the COP das Baixadas (“COP of the Lowlands”), two far-left teams holding counter-events parallel to the continuing COP30 local weather alarmism convention, hosted by the Brazilian authorities in Belém from November 10-21. Last week, the “People’s Summit” held its inauguration and ended its agenda with Saturday’s joint rally.
Throughout the march, individuals reportedly carried coffins to carry a symbolic “funeral for fossil fuels,” with completely different coffins representing oil, gasoline, and coal. Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva and Indigenous Peoples Minister Sônia Guajajara participated within the march, driving atop the rally’s foremost automobile.
“After different COPs, the place social protests solely occurred inside official U.N. areas, in Brazil, within the Global South, in a consolidated democracy, we are able to take to the streets. COP30 permits the peripheries, the waters, the cities, the fields, and the forests to return collectively,” Silva mentioned. “Places that face local weather change. Despite our challenges and contradictions, we’ve to map out the trail to a simply transition and finish our dependence on fossil fuels.”
Lawmakers from the Socialism and Liberty Party additionally reportedly joined the leftist march. UOL reported that a few of the individuals fell ailing because of the scorching 89.6-degree climate in Belém on Sunday. Brazil, a rustic positioned within the Southern Hemisphere, is presently going via the second half of spring.
“We need to specific all of the calls for which have arisen throughout the People’s Summit. We need to denounce false options to local weather change, corresponding to forest financing funds,” Eduardo Giesen, a consultant of a collaborating leftist group, mentioned. “We ask that oil not be exploited within the Amazon and that fossil fuels not be proliferated all through the world.”
The Brazilian outlet Poder 360 reported that a few of the individuals chanted slogans towards President Trump, branding him the “Orange Plague” in criticism of Trump pushing towards the U.N.’s local weather agenda and for different insurance policies carried out by his administration because the begin of Trump’s second time period in January.
Other individuals, Poder 360 additional detailed, additionally chanted “free Palestine” and carried Palestinian flags all through the rally. Another group expressed opposition to potential amnesty for the women and men convicted for his or her participation within the January 8, 2023, riots. Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST), one other of the collaborating leftist teams, issued requires land reforms within the South American nation.
Activists carry an enormous Palestinian flag throughout the so-called “Great People’s March” within the sidelines of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil, on November 15, 2025. (MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP by way of Getty Images)
Greenpeace, one of many teams that participated within the “People’s Summit,” knowledgeable in a assertion that it additionally had a presence within the Saturday rally.
“Activists carried messages demanding respect for the Amazon and to make polluters pay utilizing a large local weather polluters invoice exhibiting projected loss and harm attributed to prime oil and gasoline firms,” Greenpeace mentioned.
The Spanish information company EFE reported that the People’s Summit, one of many march’s organizing events, will ship a letter to Brazil’s COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago with a number of calls for, together with the “recognition of Indigenous ancestral data on local weather points and the mitigation of greenhouse gasoline emissions that trigger world warming.”
Christian Okay. Caruzo is a Venezuelan author and paperwork life below socialism. You can comply with him on Twitter right here.
