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An article by Jon Queally from Common Dreams<\/a> (reprinted according to Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)<\/p>\n

An estimated 50,000 people took to the streets of Bel\u00e9m do Par\u00e1,\u00a0Brazil\u00a0on Saturday to demonstrate outside the halls of the\u00a0United Nations\u00a0annual climate summit, holding a \u201cGreat People\u2019s March\u201d and makeshift \u201cFuneral for\u00a0Fossil Fuels\u201d as they demanded a just transition toward a more\u00a0renewable energy\u00a0system and egalitarian economy.<\/p>\n

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Organized by civil society organizations and\u00a0Indigenous\u00a0Peoples groups from Brazil and beyond, the tens of thousands who marched outside the thirtieth Conference of the Parties (COP30) summit called for an end to the rapacious greed of the\u00a0oil, gas, and\u00a0coal\u00a0companies as they advocated for big polluters to pay for the large-scale damage their businesses have caused worldwide over the last century.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are tens of thousands here today, on the streets of Bel\u00e9m, to show negotiators at COP30 that this is what\u00a0people power\u00a0looks like,\u201d said Carolina Pasquali, executive director of\u00a0Greenpeace\u00a0Brazil, said as the march took hold. \u201cYesterday we found out that one in every 25 COP30 participants is a fossil fuel lobbyist, proportionally a 12% increase from last year\u2019s COP. How can the\u00a0climate crisis\u00a0be solved while those creating it are influencing the talks and delaying decisions? The people are getting fed up\u2013enough talking, we need action and we need it now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0report\u00a0by the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition last week showed that at least 1,600 lobbyists from the\u00a0fossil fuel industry\u00a0are present at the conference, making it the second-largest delegation overall, second only to Brazil\u2019s, the host nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s common sense that you cannot solve a problem by giving power to those who caused it,\u201d said\u00a0Jax Bongon from the Philippines-based IBON International, a member of the coalition, in a Friday statement. \u201cYet three decades and 30 COPs later, more than 1,500 fossil fuel lobbyists are roaming the climate talks as if they belong here. It is infuriating to watch their influence deepen year after year, making a mockery of the process and of the communities suffering its consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the overwhelming presence of fossil fuel lobbyists has once again diminished hopes that anything worthwhile will emerge from the conference, the tens of thousands in the streets on Saturday represented the ongoing determination of the global climate movement.<\/p>\n

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Jo\u00e3o Talocchi, co-founder of Alianza Pot\u00eancia Energ\u00e9tica\u00a0Latin America, one of the key groups behind the \u201cFuneral for Fossil Fuels\u201d portion of the day\u2019s action\u2014which included mock caskets for the oil, gas, and coal companies alongside parades of jungle animals, wind turbines, and solar panels representing what\u2019s at stake and the better path forward\u2014noted the key leadership of Indigenous groups from across the\u00a0Global South.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the Global South to the world, we are showing what a fair and courageous energy transition must look like,\u201d said Talochhi.<\/p>\n

Ilan Zugman, director of\u00a0350.org\u00a0in Latin America and the Caribbean, noted the significance of the demonstration, including the symbolism of the funeral procession.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe march symbolically burying fossil fuels because they are the root of the crisis threatening our lives,\u201d explained Zugman. \u201cHumanity already knows the way forward: clean energy,\u00a0climate justice, and respect for the peoples who protect life. What is missing is political courage to break once and for all with oil, gas, and coal. It is time to put these old fuels where they belong\u2014in the ground of history.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the COP30 at its midway point, climate activists warn that not nearly enough progress is being made, with the outsized influence of the fossil fuel industry one of the key reasons that governments, year after year and decade after decade, continue to drag their feet when it comes to taking the kind of aggressive actions to stem the climate crisis that scientists and experts say is necessary.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are taking to the streets because, while governments are not acting fast enough to make polluters pay for their climate damages at COP30,\u00a0extreme weather\u00a0events continue to wreak havoc across the globe,\u201d said Abdoulaye Diallo, co-head of Greenpeace International\u2019s \u201cMake Polluters Pay\u201d campaign. \u201cThat is why we are here, carrying the climate polluters bill, showing the projected economic damages of more than $5 trillion from the emissions of just five oil and gas companies over the last decade.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFossil fuel companies are destroying our planet, and people are paying the price,\u201d said Diallo. \u201cNegotiators must wake up to the growing public and political pressure to make polluters pay, and agree to new polluter taxes in the final COP30 outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Editor’s note: Another demonstration specifically criticized Brazil’s decision to allow oil prospecting in the Amazon. According to UN News<\/a>, “Around 90 Indigenous people from the Munduruku Indigenous group staged a peaceful protest early Friday, blocking the main entrance to the Blue Zone \u2013 the restricted area set aside for negotiators \u2013 at\u00a0COP30\u00a0in Bel\u00e9m. . . COP30 Executive Director Ana Toni described the demonstrations as \u201clegitimate\u201d and confirmed that the government is listening. Protesters were directed to meet with the Minister of Indigenous Peoples, S\u00f4nia Guajajara, and the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva.)<\/p>\n

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