Brazil, COP30 participants raise concerns over role of major polluting countries

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At COP30, Brazil and other participants voiced concern over the lack of commitment from the world's biggest polluting countries in tackling climate change. More details with our correspondent Ignacio Lemus. teleSUR

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00:00Welcome back.

00:10In Brazil, the complaints about the role of countries responsible for pollution during

00:15COP30 also extended to the impact of imperialism.

00:18Our team explains more in the following report.

00:21It is estimated that militaries are responsible for 5.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

00:33If they were a country, they would have the fourth largest carbon footprint in the world.

00:37This does not include emissions from reconstruction and caused wildfires.

00:44If the men who make war were here at this COP, they would realize that it is much cheaper

00:58to spend $1 trillion and $300 billion than to spend $2 trillion and $700 billion to wage

01:03war, as they did last year.

01:09The US the largest historical emitter of greenhouse gases is the great absentee at COP30 and also

01:19a central actor due to the genocide in Palestine and the military threat in the Caribbean Sea.

01:26Members of the Sumed Flotilla, who attempted to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, were present

01:32at the COP to make it clear that environmentalism and the fight against imperialism go hand in

01:37hand.

01:38The military threat exists because they are after Venezuela's oil and Colombia's strategic

01:44minerals for the energy transition.

01:46We used to have a regulated liberal capitalism that exploited resources, but now we are moving

01:51toward an authoritarian military capitalism, and I believe we need to analyze this transition

01:56very carefully.

01:57They are not seeing culture, people, ecological diversity, or life in us.

02:02They only see resources to exploit.

02:04The debts of developing or underdeveloped countries to international organizations such as the IMF,

02:14or the World Bank, also hinder the development of their economies and climate agendas, especially

02:19in situations of economic blockades like those also promoted by the United States.

02:25the United States.

02:26Any effort related to climate financing must be unconditional, inclusive, and independent

02:31of ideologies or alternative political systems.

02:35It should not be used as a mechanism to subjugate those who have challenged the dominant ideological

02:40hegemony, nor should it discriminate against or exclude certain countries from the international

02:45financial system.

02:52At COP30, some warn that the protection of the Amazon and the development of its peoples cannot be considered

02:58under colonial regimes.

03:00Right now, in French Guayana, all the decisions come from Europe, come from France.

03:06We have no power of decision.

03:09And everything who's decided in France don't match with the reality of French Guayana.

03:16So, we don't recognize ourselves in the decision of France.

03:23So, that's it.

03:24We ask for, we emancipate our country for our independence, because we know that we alone

03:35could decide for ourselves and get the right decision.

03:38There is no time in the face of climate collapse, nor in the face of military threats to sides

03:46of the same coin for those who defend life, and find neither consensus nor reaction from

03:51global leaders in the halls of the COP.

03:54Ignacio Lemus and Julian Assif, for TELESUR.

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