Brazil: People's Summit ends, around 30,000 people attended the event

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In Belem, the Peoples' Climate Summit, which was set up by social movements to serve as an alternative to COP30 in the fight against eco-genocide, came to a close today. Our correspondent, Brian Mier has more details.   #teleSUREnglish #Brazil #PeoplesClimateSummit #COP30 #EcoGenocide

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00:00Summit, which was set up by social movements too severe as an alternative to COP30,

00:06the fight against eco-genocide came to a close today.

00:09Our correspondent Brian Mears has the details.

00:13After six days, with dozens of debates culminating in a democratic assembly

00:18in which a series of demands were collectively created and presented

00:22to the organizers of the UN Climate Summit, COP30,

00:26and top Brazilian government officials, the People's Climate Summit has come to a close.

00:32Organizers say that 30,000 people participated in the event.

00:38We demand an end to the production of fossil fuels,

00:42and we appeal to the governments to develop mechanisms to guarantee the non-proliferation of fossil fuels

00:50for an energy transition that is fair for the people

00:56and inclusive with sovereignty, protection, and reparations for damages to territories affected.

01:01Thousands of members of social movements like the MST,

01:05indigenous peoples, river dwellers, and Kilambola residents

01:09traveled from all over the world to Belang

01:11to participate in the People's Summit, many arriving by boat.

01:15The goal of the event was to provide a space

01:18where working-class urban and rural citizens from the global south

01:21could have their voices heard,

01:24as a counter to the COP30,

01:26which is dominated by government officials,

01:28fossil fuel industry lobbyists,

01:30and capitalist foundations from the global north.

01:33We have no doubt that the capital system,

01:38this production and consumption model,

01:40is the real cause of climate change.

01:43So our proposal with the People's Summit

01:45was to externalize our criticism of sectors like agribusiness,

01:49among others,

01:51while raising our voices to minimally insert ourselves into COP30,

01:57which is a summit that is basically negotiated

01:59by those who are destroying the environment.

02:01The People's Summit has come to a close,

02:04but COP30 will continue until Friday, November 21st.

02:09Brian Muir, Telesur, Belang.

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