While countries at the COP30 negotiations discussed the implementation of the Paris Agreement, climate finance, just transition, and the massive energy demands of artificial intelligence, our delegation held events and actions inside the COP highlighting the necessity for the decolonization and demilitarization that’s at the
heart of climate justice.
With the global acceleration of climate crises and the growing threat of authoritarianism and repression, social movements seized this moment to rise up against corporate and fascist forces and reinvigorate people power. Yet challenges remain — when local Indigenous groups demanded space to engage with the Brazilian government over land sovereignty struggles, the UN reacted by bringing militarized police inside and outside of the venue.
We returned from these convergences with stronger relationships with Brazilian and international popular movements, including the Quilombola and Black feminist movements in Brazil, and organizations in the MAR and at the Summit.
This work is rooted in a Divest-Invest framework: from the local to the global level, we demand an end to institutions that harm people and the planet, perpetuating war, ecocide, and genocide. We call for investment into what our communities actually need, like quality healthcare, good union jobs, healthy food, and clean water.
We know that the U.S. military is the single largest institutional fossil fuel consumer and greenhouse gas emitter in the world. Filmmaker Abby Martin recently released Earth’s Greatest Enemy, a documentary chronicling this impact and features GGJ members at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. Catch a screening of this new film near you!
We remain in solidarity with international allies who look to those of us in the belly of the beast to block the threat of rising imperialism and authoritarianism in the U.S. We are continuing to confront the escalation of militarism in communities here and abroad. We vehemently denounce U.S. war-mongering tactics, including the illegal military strikes on civilian vessels in the Caribbean region and ask you to take action to
stop this:
Since our Brazil delegation, GGJ continues to anchor critical political processes with international allies, sharing our People’s Care Agenda as our answer to the intertwined crises of empire and ecology. “No war, no warming!” is not just a slogan for the streets — it is the way forward, and the vision of the world our peoples are fighting to win.
Thank you for your support!
Adrien, on behalf of the GGJ delegation |