Bulletin N°61 2025 Several thousand people, including representatives of Indigenous peoples, marched during COP30 in Belém to put pressure on negotiators at the global climate conference. They are calling for a phase-out of fossil fuels and an end to deforestation. This 30th UN climate conference, COP30, is currently taking place in Belém, Brazil. On Saturday, November 15, representatives of Brazilian Indigenous peoples marched to the rhythm of drums and maracas, singing traditional songs, joining thousands of activists from around the world in a massive march. Their goal: to put pressure on the negotiators participating in the global climate conference. Such demonstrations had been banned at previous editions of this major climate event: Baku (Azerbaijan), Dubai (United Arab Emirates), and Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt)... The COP excludes Indigenous peoples from the "negotiations." Yet the issue of climate change is still there, quietly erupting amidst wars, distress, and growing misery in the world.
Those in charge of the capitalist world do not intend for things to change.
We cannot rely on heads of state to end wars, exploitation or poverty, nor can we rely on them to act against the consequences and causes of climate change.
Thirty years have passed since the first COP. Thirty years of government empty talk pretending to take the problem seriously. For thirty years, greenhouse gas emissions have continued to increase year after year. They have proven incapable of solving the problems of every human being's access to food, drinking water, housing, or education…! Meeting the needs of the population is not the goal of the capitalist class. Its priority is to make profits and carry on with business as usual.
With billions in public subsidies, they fatten capitalists' wallets by installing wind turbines and solar panels, and developing green industries . In the United States, Trump calls global warming a "hoax," and large corporations are allowed to pollute the planet! Brutal attacks against the Green Deal at the European level, a bill to simplify economic life in France. A frenzy of deregulation driven by capitalists and their cronies to "simplify" regulations and increase the "competitiveness" of businesses. The priority for all governments and multinationals is trade war, competitiveness, market share, the race for raw materials and profits, rearmament, and military capabilities to instill fear in their competitors. They need tanks, missiles, shells, and drones... Trump announces the resumption of nuclear testing, as does Putin.
Private accumulation and the pursuit of profit are the driving forces of society.
Regardless of who the political leaders are, capitalism is the master. The COP negotiators do not decide; the masters of the capitalist economy hold the decisive levers of power.
One figure illustrates the overwhelming control exerted by the hydrocarbon industry in international climate negotiations. More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists were allowed to participate in COP30: as many as all the national delegations combined. One in 25 participants in Belém was representing the interests of this sector!
At the time of this COP, the Philippines were being battered by devastating typhoons, and the Jamaican delegation was reeling from the recent passage of Hurricane Melissane. None of this carried much weight compared to the multinationals represented at COP30, which included oil and gas giants like ExxonMobil, BP, and TotalEnergies. According to Mediapart , five Total employees, including its CEO Patrick Pouyanné, were accredited to COP30 as part of the French delegation! Brazil, for its part, was represented by Petrobras. This Brazilian oil company had launched exploratory drilling at the Foz do Amazonas site, 500 km from the mouth of the Amazon River, just before this COP. On November 18, it organized a roundtable discussion in a pavilion on its ProFloresta+ initiative.
"It is always those with financial means who gain access [to decision-making spaces] ," laments Edite Andrade, an indigenous person from the Macuxi people of the state of Roraima.
Other lobbies include those of agribusiness. Multinationals in this sector, such as Nestlé and the pesticide manufacturer Bayer, organize conferences and exhibitions on bogus initiatives "aimed at sustainable agriculture ." Accused of illegal deforestation, they sponsored COP21 coverage in the country's major newspapers. Presenting biotechnology, biopesticides, and biofuels as "solutions" to reduce the environmental cost of agribusiness, these strategies allow the industry to continue expanding its crops. Nathan Stewart, coordinator of Fossil Free Politics, says: "The promotion of false solutions is used as a tactic by lobbyists to divert attention from their responsibility in the climate crisis . "
Everything that could raise awareness among workers and the people is carefully concealed under a mountain of lies. No one proposes forcing large capitalist industrial and financial groups to pay for the consequences of their policies with the hundreds of billions that belong to the workers who produce them. It is they who generate this wealth through their labor. Yes, we must put an end to this capitalist world. All over the world, workers, employees, farmers, and artisans are taking action against the exploitation and domination of large capitalist corporations. Our party contributes to the class struggle. It is the essential political tool for those who fight capitalism and want to change society.