In this interview, Ehuana Yaira talks about the indivisible relationship between the Forest and the female body. The Yanomami artist and writer was the first member of her people to give a public talk in Europe, as part of the series “Rainforest is Female,” held at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
In the Xipaya Indigenous Territory, the Iriri River is suffering the effects of climate change, as its waters change color and its fish die. We Indigenous people are living in a time of uncertainty
While the forests of the outside world face a growing risk of desertification, our symbolic forests, the habitat of the mental creatures who populate the individual and collective unconscious, are turning to deserts before our eyes
Ayisha Siddiqa – a human rights activist, and former Youth Climate Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General – shares with SUMAÚMA her criticism of the climate movement, reflections on COP30 and faith in womanhood
Countries fail to include issues in negotiations that are essential to containing the climate’s collapse, such as eliminating fossil fuels and pushing for more ambitious national goals to cut planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions
The possibility of sudden catastrophic change has been largely neglected in United Nations reports on the climate crisis, which allows politicians to carry on with business as usual. That must change in Belém
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