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Brazilian Cooperatives: The Path To A Green Economy

April 25, 2026 Bernard Marszalek, Grassroots Economic Organizing. , , , ,
The UN declared 2025 the International Year of Cooperatives. The theme of the year—"Cooperatives Build a Better World”—provided a splendid opportunity for the worldwide cooperative movement to mark its existence as vital to building a better world by limiting the effects of climate change. Unfortunately, that didn’t occur. To be more precise, it didn’t occur with the bureaucrats associated with various top-heavy international organizations that represent the cooperative economic sector on the world stage. However, the Organization of Brazilian Cooperatives (OCB) did take a stand to support the UN Climate Summit, COP30, held in Belem, Brazil on the edge of the Amazon rainforest.

Major Indigenous Protest In Brazil Targets Belo Sun Gold Mine Project

April 12, 2026 Amazon Watch, Intercontinental Cry. , , ,
Brasilia, Brazil – Thousands of Indigenous people marched in Brazil’s capital yesterday, during the second day of the 2026 Free Land Camp (ATL), the country’s largest Indigenous mobilization, to denounce land rights violations driven by large-scale mining, agribusiness, and logging projects. Leaders from the Xingu River condemned the Canadian company Belo Sun’s proposed Volta Grande mega-mine as emblematic of the current assault on Indigenous territorial rights and the failure to consult communities threatened by industrial projects.

Brazil: Workers, Social Movements Organize ‘Oil For Cuba’ Campaign

February 15, 2026 The Brazilian Federation of Oil Workers, Resumen English. , , , ,
On Friday, February 13, the FUP sent a letter to Petrobras’ Executive Board of Logistics, Marketing, and Markets, requesting a meeting to discuss the possibility of sending emergency fuel to Cuba. Social organizations, popular movements, and oil workers are coordinating the Petróleo para Cuba (Oil for Cuba) campaign to pressure the Brazilian government and Petrobras to send emergency fuel to the Caribbean country, which is being suffocated by additional sanctions imposed by the Trump administration. With the support of the two national oil workers’ federations (FUP and FNP), the initiative brings together the Brazilian Movement of Solidarity with Cuba and Just Causes, the José Martí Cultural Association, popular entities, trade unions, and political parties.

Brazil Calls Emergency CELAC Meeting In Response To US Attack

January 4, 2026 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
The Brazilian government has called for an emergency meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to address the US attack against Venezuela and the illegal abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. The acting foreign affairs minister of Brazil, María Laura da Rocha, stated on Saturday, January 3, that “a ministerial meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States has been convened tomorrow [Sunday] at 2:00 p.m. local time in Brasilia, in which all countries of the region will participate.”

Over 300,000 Marched In The Black Women’s March In Brasilia

November 29, 2025 Brunna Ramos and Flavia Quirino, People's Dispatch. , , , ,
From all over the country and from more than 40 nations, Black women began to arrive in the federal capital last week for one of the most important political mobilizations of the decade. This new edition of the National Black Women’s March brought not only the symbolic weight of memory, but also the affirmation that the historical moment calls for more protagonism, more confrontation of institutional racism, more public policies, and more spaces in power for those who sustain the country and continue to be most affected by inequalities.

Lessons For Climate Advocates From Bill Gates ‘Climate Hack’

November 28, 2025 Liam Kavanagh, DeSmog. , , ,
Many were frustrated, justifiably, by Bill Gates’ ability to steal headlines ahead of this year’s just-concluded round of U.N. climate talks, COP30. Gates did so by telling the climate community, on his blog, what he believes is a ‘hard truth’: that we are ‘diverting resources from the most effective things that should be done to to improve life in a warming world,’ notably fighting poverty and disease, including by boosting economic growth. By focusing on limiting the rise in average global temperatures as the sole metric of success, climate advocates are missing opportunities to ‘prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries.’

COP30 Backpedals On Climate Action

November 23, 2025 Bob Berwyn, Scheer Post. , , , ,
Belem, Brazil—After negotiators at COP30 retreated from meaningful climate action by failing to specifically mention the need to stop using fossil fuels in the final conference documents published Saturday, the disappointment inside the COP30 conference center was as pervasive as the diesel fumes from the generators outside the tent. This year’s United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was billed as the “COP of Truth” by host country Brazil, but it could go down in history “as the deadliest talk show ever,” said Harjeet Singh, founding director of the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation in India and strategic advisor to the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.

Pesticide Industry ‘Hijacked’ Climate Stage At COP30

November 23, 2025 Clare Carlile, DeSmog.com. , , ,
Syngenta and other pesticide companies used the COP30 climate conference in Brazil to promote programmes to recover damaged pastureland that campaigners fear will drive increased use of toxic chemicals. Trade groups hosted multiple events to promote a technique known as ‘degraded pasture recovery’, in which land that has been damaged by overgrazing or other forms of poor management is converted to grow soy, sugarcane, corn, or other crops.  Brazil says the approach will help reduce pressure on forests by opening up fresh tracts of arable land. The country has set a target to convert 40 million hectares of damaged pasture into production zones for food crops and biofuels over the next decade — an area almost twice the size of the UK.

Bolsonaro Arrested And In Preventative Detention

November 22, 2025 Brasil de Fato, People's Dispatch. , , ,
Former president Jair Bolsonaro was arrested on Saturday morning, November 22, by the Federal Police (PF). In a statement, the PF reported that it carried out “a preventive arrest warrant in compliance with a decision from the Supreme Federal Court.” Under house arrest since August 4, Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party (PL) was taken to the PF Headquarters after being detained at his home around 6 am in Brasília. According to authorities, Saturday’s detention is a precautionary measure and does not constitute the beginning of his 27-year and three-month sentence for which the far-right former president was convicted in the coup plot trial.

COP30 Isn’t A Failure, It’s A Farce

November 22, 2025 Peter Gelderloos, In These Times. , , ,
Belem, Brazil — As the COP30 climate summit comes to a close here in Belém, in the Brazilian state of Pará, conference organizers have little to show after two weeks of highly publicized talks. This is bad for everyone. The United Nations Climate Change Conference desperately needed to restore its reputation. After all, last year’s COP29 took place in Azerbaijan, where fossil fuels make up 90% of the exports and where the government was being accused of carrying out genocide in the months leading up to the conference. The previous year, the COP28 was held in Dubai, capital of another petrostate.

How The United Nations Reduces Its Legitimacy More Than Global Emissions

November 20, 2025 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. , , , , , ,
Belem, Brazil - The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP) held this year in Belem, Brazil - a nation where 56% of the population identifies as Black or brown, global Black/Afro Descendant movements believed there could have been opportunities to center and prioritize the specific and nuanced ways the climate crisis impacts their communities. A study conducted by Brazilian based, Geledés - the Black Women’s Institute and the Center for Applied Research in Law and Racial Justice at the Fundacao Getulia Vargas School of Law indicates, “The specificity of the Afro-descendant experience in the Americas lies at the intersection of structural racism, colonial legacies, and erasure attempts through ideologies of miscegenation and racial democracy.”

More Than 300 Lobbyists For Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30

November 18, 2025 Rachel Sherrington and Nina Lakhani, DeSmog. , , , , ,
More than 300 lobbyists for food and farming organisations have participated at this year’s UN climate talks, known as COP30, taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where agribusiness is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found. The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides is up 14 percent over last year’s summit in Baku — and is larger than the delegation of the world’s 10th largest economy, Canada, which brought 220 delegates to COP30 in Belém, according to the joint investigation between DeSmog and the Guardian. 

70,000 People March In Belém For Climate Justice

November 16, 2025 Mariana Castro, People's Dispatch. , , , , ,
The streets of Belém were occupied, according to organizers, by more than 70,000 people on Saturday, November 15, for the historic Global Climate March. Unlike the official COP30 spaces, the march brought together the diversity of peoples and demands from civil society in defense of climate justice. With the force of the motto “We are the answer”, the tens of thousands of members of people’s movements held signs such as “Agribusiness is fire”, “There is no climate justice without popular agrarian reform” and “environmental collapse is capitalist”.

People’s Summit Begins In Brazil As An Alternative To COP30

November 15, 2025 Resumen English. , , , ,
The People’s Summit began on Wednesday, November 12, in Belém, Brazil, as a space for resistance and an alternative proposal to the official discussions of the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30). The opening ceremony brought together some 5,000 people aboard 200 boats, which sailed along the Amazon River basin. This initial mobilization represents the arrival of popular movements from 62 countries. The event, which will run until November 16 at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Guamá campus, seeks to counter what popular movements describe as “false solutions” to the global climate crisis.

US Oil Executives Flock To COP30

November 15, 2025 Phoebe Cooke, DeSmog. , , , ,
Top American oil and gas producers are using trade groups to gain access to this year’s COP30 climate summit in the absence of an official U.S. delegation, DeSmog can report. ExxonMobil and Chevron — which are among the fossil fuel industry’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters — have sent a combined total of 13 executives to the talks, while both companies have either sponsored events or pavilions at the conference. In addition, Exxon CEO Darren Woods spoke at a number of COP30 side events, including one in Sao Paolo on November 3, where he noted in an interview with Reuters that crude oil and hydrocarbons were “going to play a critical role in everybody’s life for a long time to come”.
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