A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #33-25 - Against the COP30 Farce. Defend Territories, Globalize the Struggles (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

COP30 is taking place in Belém, in the heart of the Amazon: yet another 
global climate conference that promises to "save the planet" without 
ever questioning those who are devastating it. For thirty years, the 
scene has been the same: solemn declarations, compensation plans, group 
photos, and an increasingly dramatic outcome. Global emissions are 
rising, the concentration of capital and power is growing, and 
territories continue to be plundered in the name of the "green transition."
Behind the scenes at the COP, governments and multinationals are 
competing to manage the disaster they themselves have created. Today, 
capitalism presents itself with an ecological face: it talks of "climate 
neutrality," "carbon markets," and "clean technologies," but in reality 
it is preparing a new phase of accumulation based on the control of 
natural resources and the expulsion of populations from their 
territories. The "green deal" is merely an updated version of old 
colonialism: extracting lithium instead of oil, privatizing biodiversity 
instead of forests, capitalizing on catastrophe.
While the powerful treat the planet's limits like budget items, 
thousands of peasant, indigenous, feminist, and grassroots movements are 
building their own alternative. From the Via Campesina to the Landless 
Movement, from Amazonian communities to the agroecological networks of 
the Sahel, a common voice is raised: food sovereignty, climate justice, 
popular control of territories. The manifesto released ahead of COP30 is 
clear: "There are no climate solutions without a systemic transformation 
that dismantles capitalist and patriarchal power." It is the language of 
resistance that comes from below, not from ministries or conferences.
But even within this front of struggle, difficult questions arise. The 
"global South" is no longer just a victim: new powers, led by China, are 
replicating extractivist and industrial models that devastate ecosystems 
and communities. The challenge is to build a solidarity between peoples 
that isn't blind to these contradictions, and that places territorial 
autonomy at its center against all forms of domination, whether Western 
or "emerging." For those fighting from below, the question isn't how to 
make capitalism sustainable, but how to escape it. Agreements, markets, 
and compensation aren't enough. We need networks of mutual support, 
self-management of common goods, and communities capable of collectively 
deciding how to produce and what to consume. It's not a technical issue, 
but a political one: whoever controls the land, water, and energy 
controls life.

COP30, like its predecessors, will be a great theater of power. But 
outside the palaces, another network is growing, made up of peasant 
struggles, popular assemblies, self-managed cooperatives, occupations, 
and movements for the defense of territories. This is where the true 
transition is being built, one that isn't measured in tons of CO2 but in 
freedom, dignity, and solidarity.
Against the farce of COP30, let's globalize the struggle, let's 
globalize hope.

Totò Caggese

https://umanitanova.org/contro-la-farsa-della-cop30-difendere-i-territori-globalizzare-le-lotte/
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