A call from the Amazon to build an Agreement for Life in the face of climate and ecological collapse

Without Amazon there is no solution to the climate crisis. Without a solution to the global climate crisis, it will not be possible to save the Amazon. Therefore, from the XI FOSPA (Pan-Amazonian Social Forum) we call on our sisters and brothers from all continents to build an Agreement for Life in the face of climate, and ecological collapse of the planet. An agreement from the grassroots, in minga, from our feeling and thinking in collaborative work, to realize the urgent demand to «change the capitalist system and not the climate», to build territories free of oil extraction, mining, deforestation, agribusiness, pollution, false solutions, free trade, racism, colonialism, transgenics, pesticides, mega infrastructure projects, multiple violence, militarization, genocide, and terricide. A Systemic Agreement that takes up the ancestral practices of food production that are carried out in territories such as the Amazon, and extends our alternatives of territorial, food, and energy sovereignty, promoting the advances achieved in the Yasuní referendum in Ecuador, in the declaration of Palos Blancos as an agroecological Bolivian municipality free of mining, in the mobilization for a Panama free of mining, and in the struggle against all types of genocide, such as the one suffered by the Palestinian people.

The Paris Agreement has failed. Until 2023, governments will reduce only one-tenth of the 24 giga-tons that we must reduce globally to curb the temperature increase that already exceeded 1.5ºC in 2023. The corporate capture of climate negotiations seeks to hide the urgent warnings from the scientific community that we are entering uncharted territory where extreme and unpredictable climate events predominate. The Conferences of the Parties on climate change speak of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but do not establish binding commitments to reduce fossil fuels, deforestation, and the transformation of unsustainable production, consumption, and distribution patterns. This omission is not accidental because the governments of the planet are captured by the logic of capital and do not seek a transition to overcome the capitalist, extractivist, patriarchal, and irrational modernity system.

We are aware of the diversity of strategies and initiatives against the climate crisis. We recognize the efforts of those who, for decades, have focused on achieving progress in the negotiations at the Conferences of the Parties on climate change . Still, today it is clear that the real and effective solutions will come from our struggles, from our territories, from our experience, from our capacity for self-management and from our alternatives.

We propose to all the social movements and organizations of the planet to build a systemic Agreement so that, together we can achieve a solution to climate change:

Read the Proposals of the Strategic Agreement here

Read Inside Climate News article "To Save the Amazon, What if We Listened to Those Living Within It? " by Katie Surma here

Source: Global Assembly for the Amazon

Region: Amazon - Latin America