Brazil: COP30 divisions over corporate climate role

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With 60 thousand people from around the world participating in COP30, there is a growing tension between business community supporters of green capitalism, and the social movements and activists who support eco-socialism as the best way to fight climate change.  #teleSUREnglish #Brazil #COP30 #ClimateChange #EcoSocialism

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00:00Today was a busy day at the COP30, and it is Haas City of Belén, where social movements and indigenous peoples hold parallel events.

00:10Here are correspondent Brand Mears with a run-up of today's activities.

00:17Day 6 of COP30 is coming to a close, and there is a lot of things going on today.

00:22First of all, there was a massive street protest held by the People's Summit for Climate Change,

00:28which was an alternative event with thousands of participants from indigenous nations,

00:33riverine community associations, kilombola residents, and social movements.

00:38They took to the streets to demand better, more sovereignty for indigenous lands,

00:45a returning of indigenous lands to their people, fighting against illegal logging and mining on indigenous reserves.

00:53There is a group representing urban slum dwellers, social movements like the MNLM and the UNMP,

01:01demanding more funding for adaptation in peripheral areas of cities in the Global South.

01:07These are the people, they say, who are most damaged by climate change disasters,

01:11and governments need to actively fund adaptability for these neighborhoods,

01:19including relocating people from at-risk areas of landslides and floods.

01:24Then the final theme of the march was for socialism.

01:28It was called Internationalism and Solidarity with the Peoples.

01:31The argument is that climate change is a direct result of capitalism.

01:35The only way to combat it and to save what's left of the world's environment is through structural change to socialism.

01:43Meanwhile, across town, Brazil's indigenous rights minister, inside the blue zone of the COP30,

01:48announced a new international commission made up of indigenous leaders from around the world

01:53that's demanding a more active role in all of the actions that the UN is taking to fight climate change.

01:59So there's a lot going on, there's going to be a lot going on tomorrow.

02:01Stay tuned to tell us our English and I'll have more tomorrow morning.

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