Where: Belèm, Brazil
When: 12 to 16 November 2025
The journey to build the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30 reflects the mobilization of the various social and environmental movements in Brazil.
Since March 2023, organisations have come together to form a unified representation that reflects the country’s rich biomes and diverse voices.
Through meetings in Brasília and at COP28 in Dubai, they have worked to develop a political declaration and a set of guiding principles for the Summit, strengthening our commitment to a climate and social justice agenda that will shape the path toward COP30 in Brazil in 2025.
No one really told us what organizing a degrowth conference would entail. We simply knew we wanted to do it. Two years of organizing, meeting, discussing and struggling have passed and now we’re less than seven weeks away from the first day of the conference. The initial motivation we all had in the summer of 2018 has not gone, but it has faltered at times. There have been days when I wo...
International corporations are decimating nature, destroying lives and manipulating opinion. Here's how to stop them.. A US engineering giant sneaks into a Bolivian city under an assumed name and takes over its public water system. A Canadian mining company seeks control of El Salvador’s gold even at the cost of poisoning its drinking water. An Italian energy conglomerate floods ...
Green growth advocates praise resource efficiency for its potential to incentivize the economy and lower its ecological impact. On the other hand, the Jevons Paradox, describes multiple situations (or rebound effects) in which increased efficiency leads to further consumption (either direct or indirect) which offsets the initial ecological benefits achieved. In this piece, I join this discussio...
