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Brazil's federal government passed 7 billion Brazilian reals to the right-wing state government of Para for environmental projects in preparation for COP30. With 4 days left, 9 of these projects haven't been executed yet. Our correspondent Brian Mier has more. teleSUR  These and more stories now!

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00:00Brazil's federal government passed 7 billion reais to the right-wing state government

00:06of Pará for environmental projects in preparation for COP30.

00:11With four days left, nine of these projects haven't been executed yet.

00:15Our correspondent Brian Mir has more information.

00:19During the lead-up to COP30, Brazil's President Lula announced that it would be marked by

00:24the greatest level of popular participation in the history of the UN climate change conferences.

00:30With the Alternative People's Climate Summit drawing to a close,

00:35social movements and indigenous groups are working to get their voices heard inside the UN.

00:41We have no doubt that capital in systems and its mode of production and consumption

00:46is a real cause of climate change. So our strategy has been to externalize our criticism against

00:52global sectors such as agribusiness while raising our flag so that we can at least minimally

00:58insert ourselves into COP30, which is a conference where everything is being negotiated,

01:04basically by the actors who are destroying the environment.

01:09In the middle of a conference that has been dominated by government officials,

01:13capitalist foundations and NGOs from the global north and fossil fuel and mining industry lobbyists

01:18pushing for green capitalism, Brazil's Landless Rural Workers Movement, or MST, held an event inside

01:25the Brazilian government's Jandaira Auditorium to promote the importance of agrarian reform as a

01:31strategy to advance a transformation towards socialism.

01:35It's only through a new model for society that we'll be able to transform our country and people-centered

01:47agrarian reform, which we will go into more detail about tonight, is part of this big strategy so

01:54that we can have a nation with environmental justice, without the environmental crimes that

01:59are damaging the lives of the people of the world. Among the events promoted by social movements inside

02:05the COP30, on Wednesday night representatives of the People's Climate Summit are holding a press conference to

02:10present the demands raised during its Democratic Assembly. Brian Muir, Tele Sir Beleng.

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