Elite interests from the Global North are using COP30 to promote green capitalism, but social movement activists are pushing back. Our correspondent Brian Mier has more. teleSUR
00:22On the multilateral level, Brazil's President Lula is urging each participating nation to create a roadmap for the transition to renewable energy with clear-cut goals and delivery dates that everyone can agree on.
00:38Meanwhile, the social movements and the indigenous peoples who participated in the People's Climate Summit, an alternative event at the Federal University of Pará that ended on Sunday, are now doing everything they can to occupy space here within COP30 and make their demands be heard by the rich and powerful who are running this conference.
01:01Capitalism, they say, is the main cause for the climate crisis.
01:04That's why it's important to make structural transitions to abandon the current production and consumption models in a path towards socialism.
01:13They think that's in direct conflict with the advocates of green capitalism, the oil and mining industry lobbyists who are here, for example, outnumbering indigenous participants by two to one in this year's COP30.
01:28And so they've been participating in different seminars and forums here within COP30.
01:34And tonight there's going to be a big press conference in which representatives of the People's Climate Summit will present the list of demands that was collectively created in a democratic assembly last Friday to the international press.
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