15 November 2025
Social and environmental movements from around the world today mobilized thousands of people to join marches worldwide, demanding an end to the system that has fueled climate destruction in the Amazon to the rest of the world. The protesters condemned global economic inequality, environmental racism, and corporate impunity that have delayed action and denied justice to people in climate-vulnerable countries.
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The marches were part of the November 15 Global Day of Action organized by the Peoples’ Summit to coincide with the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) happening in Belém, Brazil. More than 100 marches, demonstrations and events were held in 27 countries around the world.
In Asia, around 10,000 people joined mobilizations in more than 40 cities and provinces in the Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Nepal. In Africa, mobilizations were held in Kenya, Zambia, Benin, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the UK and Ireland, mobilizations were held in 16 cities, including London and Dublin. In #Belém, around 70,000 from global and Brazilian movements participated in the Peoples’ Summit March.
QUOTES:
Ayala Ferreira, Coordenação Nacional do Movimento Sem Terra (MST): “Nós, do MST, marchamos porque sabemos que a luta pela terra, pela água e pela comida de verdade é a mesma luta por justiça climática. Os povos dos territórios já provaram que existem soluções reais para enfrentar a crise, enquanto governos e corporações insistem em empurrar falsas promessas que só aumentam a fome, expulsam comunidades e destroem a natureza. Marchamos em solidariedade internacional, unindo trabalhadores do campo e da cidade, povos da Amazônia e companheiros de todo o mundo, para afirmar que a vida não é mercadoria e que a saída está na força dos territórios. É por isso que estaremos nas ruas de Belém no dia 15: porque sem justiça social, não existe justiça climática.”
Tasneem Essop, executive director of Climate Action Network International: “We are done watching Big Polluters and the governments aligned with them decide our future. Real solutions are already alive in the territories – in the hands of Indigenous peoples, workers, women, and youth who defend land, water, and life every single day. On this Global Day of Action, we take to the streets of Belém with thousands of others to make one thing clear: the era of sacrifice zones is over. The world we need puts justice at the centre – not profit, not war, not extraction. People’s power is rising, and we are not backing down.”
Ivan Gonzales, Coordenação Política da Confederação Sindical das Américas (CSA): “Vamos marchar porque os povos seguem construindo sua história de resistência, solidariedade e dignidade. Os povos, a classe trabalhadora, os povos originários e as comunidades somos a solução para as crises sistêmicas do capitalismo.”
Lidy Nacpil, coordinator of the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development: “From Asia to the Amazon, we are mobilizing to change the system that has kept our people hostage to climate destruction. On the streets of Belém, we are marching with thousands of allies for an end to the capitalist and imperialist order that has plundered our lands and exploited our people. Inside the #COP, we are pushing for governments to adopt a global just transition mechanism, provide climate finance from the North to the South, and accelerate a fair transition from #FossilFuels to #RenewableEnergy. Ultimately, we are fighting to end the system that has brought back-to-back typhoons to the Philippines, floods to India and Pakistan, and landslides to Nepal. System change is the only way forward—anything less is an injustice against our people.”
Iury Paulino, Coordenação Nacional do Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB): “Chegou a hora da Marcha Global por Justiça Climática. Nossa marcha foi ontem, com concentração no Mercado de São Brás a partir das 7h e saída às 9h pontualmente. Fomos até a Aldeia Cabana levando todos os povos, todas as pautas, todas as reivindicações e todas as propostas de solução para a crise climática — e também a alegria e a diversidade dos nossos povos. Marcha por Justiça Climática já tinha acontecido!”
Leon Sealey-Huggins, senior campaigner of War on Want: “War on Want is in Belém to amplify the leadership and lived knowledge of our partners on the frontlines — those exposing false climate solutions and driving real, people-centred, just and popular transitions. We’re taking action across the UK and marching here in Belém to demand a Belém Action Mechanism for Just Transition — and to tell the UK government to stop blocking the demands of millions of workers, frontline communities, feminists and Indigenous peoples. The fight for climate justice is the fight for economic, social and racial justice. Wealth must be reclaimed from destructive industries and redirected towards life-sustaining futures. Through mass mobilisation, solidarity, and sustained organising, we are making it clear: This world is ours.”
Cupim, Coordenação do Movimento pela Soberania na Mineração (MAM):“Marcharemos assim como marchamos há décadas, há séculos! Pela vida, pela manutenção das vidas no planeta Terra. Continuaremos lutando pelos direitos da classe trabalhadora, principal afetada pelas questões climáticas, e pelos direitos da natureza — afinal, somos parte dela. Marcharemos para denunciar e lutar contra todas as opressões e preconceitos, porque acreditamos em outra sociedade, que não seguirá os moldes atuais do modo de produção capitalista.”a
Javier Andaluz, coordinator of Alianza por el Clima (Climate Alliance Spain): “Ten years after the Paris Agreement, we are still far from meeting the targets required by science, and our emissions continue to rise. In the face of this political inaction, we are taking to the streets once again to demand a just, urgent, and immediate transition, because if the necessary measures are not taken, it will be the most vulnerable populations who will suffer the most. Before it is too late, it is essential to establish a mechanism capable of ending fossil fuels and ensuring the financing and support needed for the energy transformation we require.”
Mai Taqueban, diretor da Friends of the Earth Philippines: “Dos rios aos mares, das favelas às florestas, estamos nos levantando juntos por soluções reais que sejam conduzidas pelos povos, não pelas corporações. Isso tudo faz parte de uma luta maior por mudanças transformadoras contra um sistema construído sobre a desumanização e a exploração dos povos e sobre a devastação do meio ambiente. Viemos de todas as partes do mundo para estar em solidariedade uns com os outros, fortalecer nossas lutas e traçar, juntos, um caminho para um mundo mais justo.”
Rachitaa Gupta, coordinator of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice:“Today we marched with thousands of people because our lives, our lands, and our futures are not negotiable. We marched because we in the Global South are being sacrificed for the profit of corporations and the political convenience of powerful governments. We reject #CarbonMarkets and every false solution that lets polluters keep polluting. We demand real, public climate finance, historic reparations, and protection of Indigenous, quilombola, coastal, and forest territories. Our solutions of agroecology, food sovereignty, and community power already exist. Today people marched in Belem to show that from the #Amazon to Palestine, peoples’ power is rising, and governments must follow our lead.”
Denisse Chavez of GIMCC: “Creo que si no tomamos en cuenta en este momento que nosotras estamos haciendo porque no somos mercadería. Somos mujeres en lucha. Somos mujeres que estamos defendiendo nuestros territorios. Estamos en contra de la apropiación de nuestros cuerpos. Estamos en contra del asesinato de nuestras defensoras del ambiente y del territorio. Queremos que haya un cambio, un cambio donde las mujeres estemos en primera línea.”
Credit: Bianka Csenki / Artivist Network
Media contacts:
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Esthappen S | Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice | estha.dcj@gmail.com | +91 9820918910 on Signal/WhatsApp
Isabel Rodrigo | Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development | isabelperodrigo@gmail.com | +63 926 734 5712 on Signal/WhatsApp
