News on COP30 - SUMAÚMA

Our Voice —

A shout-out for the silent climate majority

Jonathan Watts ,

Xingu River, Altamira, the Amazon ,

5 May 2025

Sumaúma joins a global media collaboration against the ‘false social reality’ created by billionaires with bullhorns

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COP DIARY —

Belém rushes for COP visitors, but can’t guarantee housing for its citizens

Guilherme Guerreiro Neto ,

Belém, Pará, Amazon ,

5 May 2025

In Pará’s capital, almost 60% of the population lives in favelas. Low-income residents are driven out by public works while the city receives hundreds of millions of dollars to prepare for the climate summit

ReXistence —

ATL: sem Lula e sem demarcações – mas com ataque da polícia

Rafael Moro Martins ,

Cerrado, Brasília ,

15 April 2025

A sete meses da COP30, o Acampamento Terra Livre chega ao fim com o movimento Indígena isolado pelo alinhamento entre o governo federal e o Supremo na negociação do marco temporal

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Opinion —

COP30 and the challenge of a discordant world

Claudia Antunes ,

Atlantic Forest, Rio de Janeiro ,

14 April 2025

Confronted by domestic division and global conflict, the Brazilian hosts of the Belém climate summit have adopted an extremely cautious stance that falls far short of what is needed to address the climate emergency

ReXistence —

ATL: com críticas a Lula, Congresso e Supremo, Indígenas dizem que ‘não aceitarão manobras’

SUMAÚMA

11 April 2025

O Acampamento Terra Livre de 2025 termina com reprovação aos três poderes, pede respeito à Constituição, fim do marco temporal e presença dos Indígenas no centro da COP30

Our Voice —

We need to talk about the military in the Amazon

Eliane Brum ,

Xingu River, Altamira, the Amazon ,

7 April 2025

The dictatorship’s ideology for the Forest persists under democracy, unites opposing political sides, and threatens our future

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COP DIARY —

Belém’s ‘fake trees’ highlight contradictions of Amazon’s COP30

Guilherme Guerreiro Neto ,

Belém, Pará, Amazon ,

4 April 2025

Metal trees provide new urban canopy for the host city of the UN climate summit in November. The Pará state government is also accused of building new avenues that have increased deforestation and violated civic rights

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Interview —

COP30 executive director: “We have to move beyond the bounds of the Climate Convention”

Claudia Antunes ,

Cerrado, Brasília ,

27 March 2025

In an interview with SUMAÚMA, Ana Toni, who shares the helm of the Belém conference, says the way to enforce climate agreements is to negotiate in other international forums, especially those about global money flows

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Interview —

COP30: price gouging on room rates may be treated as a crime, says official

Claudia Antunes ,

Cerrado, Brasília ,

20 March 2025

In an interview with SUMAÚMA, COP secretary Valter Correia da Silva advises countries to send smaller delegations to Belém due to capacity limits, and insists there will be zero deforestation for the event

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Forest diplomats fight for space at the center of COP-30

Guilherme Guerreiro Neto ,

Belém, Pará, Amazon ,

18 March 2025

After three conferences in countries with restrictions on protests, Amazonian leaders and social movements are demanding the participation of civil society in Belém but questions remain about how to force member States to listen to ‘non-parties’