In the midst of COP30 (United Nations Conference on Climate Change 2025) in Pará, the World Climate March took place, an act organized by members of the People’s Summit and the COP of the Baixadas, with the participation of the Ministers of the Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, and of Indigenous Peoples, Sônia Guajajara, as well as representatives of international NGOs.

Attack on national sovereignty

According to the organizers, the event was attended by tens of thousands of people and its central theme was the imperialist campaign against oil exploration, an anti-national act par excellence. Eduardo Giesen, Latin American coordinator of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice, said: “we ask them not to exploit oil in the Amazon and not to proliferate fossil fuels around the world”.

The statement by a representative of a foreign organization is a campaign against national sovereignty and development. But it’s not only representatives of foreign organizations who have defended the lack of national development through oil exploration in the Equatorial Margin and elsewhere. Brazil’s ministers of state corroborate the imperialist discourse that hides behind the defense of the environment.

Marina Silva, spouting demagoguery, stated that: “COP30 allows the meeting of the peripheries, the waters, the cities, the fields, the forests. Places facing climate change”, all this to defend “a road map for a just transition and ending dependence on fossil fuels”; an expression of imperialism’s policy against Brazil’s exploitation of oil.

Guajajara, for his part, greeted the participants and, of course, those who are against the exploitation of Brazilian oil, saying: “that’s why here (in the streets) becomes the Blue Zone of COP30, where the guardians of life meet”. He didn’t even remember to defend the Indians who are being murdered by the latifundia, against whom he has never fought.

Nothing in favor of preservation

COP 30 is a farce, because from the point of view of environmental preservation, none of the imperialist countries has any intention of actually investing in environmental preservation. The Tropical Forests Forever Fund (TFFF), which is also an attack on sovereignty, launched by the Lula government, has raised R$5.5 billion of the R$125 billion targeted. On the other hand, it made it possible to expand the campaign against oil exploration, even giving the impression that the campaign was popular. In short, the COP only served to attack national development, the exploitation of which is essential. This at a time when Petrobras is announcing new discoveries in the Campos Basin, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. Defending the exploitation of oil is now one of the main anti-imperialist actions.