00:00And at COP30, as well in Belém, urban social movements are advocating the right to dignified housing as a way of fighting environmental racism.
00:08More with our correspondent.
00:11The People's Climate Summit has ended, but hundreds of the social movement activists who participated in it have stayed in Belém to participate in the COP30 and dozens of parallel events around the city.
00:23Brazil's National People's Housing Movement, or UNMP, is occupying debates and seminars to talk about the relation between dignified housing and environmental justice.
00:38Today, the state of Pará has the fourth highest percentage of favelas in Brazil.
00:42Our struggle is a daily affair.
00:44I'm a woman from the housing movement, and I've lived in a favela for 36 years that has no land deeds.
00:49And we know that the people who suffer the most in these territories are women, mainly black women and single mothers.
00:58Studies show that residents of favelas, like those in Belém's Vila da Barca, a wooden shack community on stilts over the Amazon River, which is home to thousands of people,
01:08are seven times more likely to be hospitalized for diseases that are exacerbated by climate change, like mosquito-borne illnesses, due to lack of adequate sewage treatment.
01:19Furthermore, the precarious nature of favela housing leaves its residents more vulnerable to climate change-related superweather events.
01:28Working-class housing in city centers is good for the environment because people don't have to go back and forth from the periphery to their jobs
01:36in a commute that generates a lot of greenhouse gas emissions.
01:40Furthermore, adequate housing guarantees that its residents are better prepared to face extreme weather events like floods.
01:48Therefore, the housing issue is of central importance when we talk about climate and environmental justice.
01:57The United Nations Climate Change Conference will continue until November 21st.
02:01Brian Muir, Telesur Belling.
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