"At the People's Summit, we're free to say how we really feel, without restrictions. There are no checks. At the COP, everything must be approved even the T-shirt you wear,"
"People who live with the impacts should be at the [negotiation] tables. But when we do manage to be there, our voices don't matter. They let us talk, but at the end of the day they do what they always wanted to do."
Thousands of people gathered at the People's Summit near COP30 in Belém to expose injustices and demand reparations while official negotiators refined climate goals. The People's Summit allowed unrestricted speech from Indigenous peoples, quilombola communities, riverine groups, youth networks, and socio-environmental movements. Activists from Nigeria, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and Togo highlighted lived impacts, including long-standing environmental devastation from oil extraction in the Niger Delta. Participants argued that people living with climate impacts must be included at negotiation tables, and they criticized formal COP processes for limiting voices and approvals, including trivial controls on expression.
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