{"id":45154,"date":"2025-11-17T12:40:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=45154"},"modified":"2025-11-17T12:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:40:22","slug":"50000-march-in-brazil-to-celebrate-death-of-fossil-fuel-industry-at-cop30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/50000-march-in-brazil-to-celebrate-death-of-fossil-fuel-industry-at-cop30\/","title":{"rendered":"50,000 March in Brazil to Celebrate Death of Fossil Fuel Industry at COP30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Thousands of people take part in the so-called \u201cGreat People\u2019s March\u201d in the sidelines of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil on November 15, 2025. Tens of thousands of people attended the march to demand \u201creal solutions\u201d to human-caused global warming , and which comes at the halfway point of contentious COP30 negotiations following two Indigenous-led protests that disrupted proceedings earlier in the week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo by Pablo Porciuncula \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is time to put these old fuels where they belong\u2014in the ground of history.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jon Queally<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nov 16, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An estimated 50,000 people took to the streets of Bel\u00e9m do Par\u00e1, Brazil<\/a>, on Saturday to demonstrate outside the halls of the United Nations<\/a> annual climate summit, holding a \u201cGreat People\u2019s March\u201d and makeshift \u201cFuneral for Fossil Fuels<\/a>\u201d as they demanded a just transition toward a more renewable energy<\/a> system and egalitarian economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organized by civil society organizations and Indigenous<\/a> Peoples groups from Brazil and beyond, the tens of thousands who marched outside the thirtieth Conference of the Parties (COP30) summit called for an end to the rapacious greed of the oil<\/a>, gas, and coal<\/a> companies as they advocated for big polluters to pay for the large-scale damage their businesses have caused worldwide over the last century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe are tens of thousands here today, on the streets of Bel\u00e9m, to show negotiators at COP30 that this is what people power<\/a> looks like,\u201d said Carolina Pasquali, executive director of Greenpeace<\/a> Brazil, said as the march took hold. \u201cYesterday we found out that one in every 25 COP30 participants is a fossil fuel lobbyist, proportionally a 12% increase from last year\u2019s COP. How can the climate crisis<\/a> be solved while those creating it are influencing the talks and delaying decisions? The people are getting fed up\u2013enough talking, we need action and we need it now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0by the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition last week showed that at least 1,600 lobbyists from the\u00a0fossil fuel industry<\/a>\u00a0are present at the conference, making it the second-largest delegation overall, second only to Brazil\u2019s, the host nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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