Brazil is hosting COP30 in Belém, selling the world the image of a
climate leader committed to the Amazon. With the participation of
companies such as Exxon, Braskem, Samarco, Vale, and JBS, the conference
exposes the capitalist hypocrisy of so-called greenwashing, in which the
same brands responsible for the planet's depredation seek to present
themselves as sustainable and aligned with climate goals.
It is essential to unmask this charade, because the grand project
continues to be one of deepening forms of exploitation, destruction, and
extermination of nature and indigenous and traditional peoples-no
relation whatsoever to promoting national sovereignty and the
self-determination of the peoples who inhabit this land. This happens
because the Conferences of the Parties (COPs) are not forums to "save
the planet," but rather the opposite; they are business counters where
global capital, mediated by nation-states, redefines the rules of
accumulation to guarantee its own survival. The climate crisis will not
be solved by those who created it and profit from it.
Our criticism should not be confused with the arguments of the
far-right, which are based on scientific denialism and the defense of
accelerating the predatory exploitation of the planet's resources. What
led leaders like Donald Trump and Javier Milei to boycott COP30 was the
denial of any commitment to the preservation of ecosystems, even in a
superficial and farcical way, thus promoting an ideological dispute with
the intention of convincing the working class to defend the interests of
large mining and oil companies, as well as agribusiness, in the
unbridled frenzy for the exploitation of natural resources.
"Global governance" as a structural failure
Three decades of COPs have proven their total failure to curb global
warming. The engine of the climate crisis is the capitalist-statist
system itself, based on the intrinsic need for infinite growth,
incessant accumulation of value, and exploitation of workers and nature.
The COPs aimed to present a "global governance," above the oppressed
classes and even nation-states, that could regulate the system. In
practice, they served only to manage inter-capitalist conflicts,
legitimize "green capitalism," and demobilize the struggle, channeling
righteous popular indignation into institutional lobbying, waiting for
agreements, and trusting the state, corporations, and NGOs, disarming
popular direct action.
COP30 is a showcase of the "false solutions" that represent the new
frontier of capitalist accumulation. Carbon markets, a financialization
of the atmosphere, are based on providing credits to polluting companies
in the Global North to continue polluting, while territories in the
South (such as indigenous lands, quilombola territories, and lands of
traditional communities in Brazil) are transformed into "offset assets."
The reality is land grabbing, the expulsion of communities, and the
right to pollute transformed into a commodity. Under the guise of
"valuing the standing forest," companies are also encroaching on
biodiversity and ancestral knowledge, patenting them and transforming
them into private products.
Even the replacement of fossil fuels with other energy sources (such as
wind, solar, hydrogen, or lithium) leaves intact the logic of excessive
consumption, large-scale production, and the extractive industry. This
"transition" creates new "sacrifice zones," requiring more mining, more
dams, and more exploitation, merely changing the vector of destruction.
The State's Deception and the Developmentalist Illusion
As anarchists, our critique is radical: the State is not a neutral
arbiter that can be "contested" or "pressured" to act on climate change.
The State is the political form of class domination, and its primary
function is to guarantee order and capitalist accumulation, suppressing
any threat to it.
Thus, we reject the illusions propagated by sectors of reformism and
social democracy that believe in the illusion of "political will,"
because the problem is the very nature of the State, which, even under
"progressive" governments, acts as a manager of capital to guarantee the
country's insertion into the international division of labor, with the
re-primarization of the economy, where agribusiness plays a fundamental
role.
Similarly, the defense of "national capitalism" or "strong state-owned
companies" (like Petrobras) are not solutions, since the State acts as a
partner and facilitator of transnational capital. The exploitation of
the pre-salt layer or the advance into the Amazon River Basin are not
manifestations of sovereignty; they are a deepening of predatory
extractivism under the national flag.
The Brazilian context behind COP30
In Brazil, the holding of COP30 in Belém appears as an effort by
capitalist-statism to reposition the country's leading role on the
international environmental stage, while internally it maintains and
even intensifies the extractive and accumulation logic. The Brazilian
government presents the event as "the COP of implementation" and part of
a large "global effort" against climate change, as officially stated by
the COP30 presidency.
However, this self-proclaimed discourse hides profound contradictions:
even within the National Congress, there is a noticeable growing
resistance to the environmental agenda across various governments; an
important example is the approval of drilling in the Amazon River
estuary as the new oil exploration frontier in Brazil, on the country's
northern coast. Another factor is that the country remains far from
meeting its own emission reduction targets, even though some decreases
in deforestation have been recorded.
It is also important to highlight that several organizations denounce
the intense infiltration of fossil fuel, agribusiness, and mining
lobbyists into the COP30 negotiation spaces and demand real transparency
and limitations on corporate influence from the Brazilian presidency.
In practice, Brazil benefits from international visibility for the
Amazon and its "climate leadership" to reinforce its role as a commodity
exporter and stage for large infrastructure projects, while traditional
communities and indigenous peoples continue to face evictions, land
grabbing, and violence. Therefore, COP30 in Brazil functions as a
showcase that masks, under the discourse of care and sustainability, the
continuation of this predatory model.
Our perspective: Libertarian Socialism and Social Ecology
COP30 attracts a diversity of social movements, NGOs, and institutional
entities to Belém. Our task is not to "influence" the official summit,
but to strengthen the real struggles of our class that take place
despite and against the summit. Our role is to ensure that popular
movements are not co-opted by governments, institutional parties, or
NGOs funded by "green" capital, while presenting our anti-capitalist
program within the movements, combating reformist illusions and pointing
towards a revolutionary horizon. We understand that we should not see
"letters of intent" as tools for change, because history shows that
achievements only come through direct action: strikes, occupations, land
reclamations, blockades, and popular self-defense.
The focus cannot be on the State or large international bodies, but
precisely on strengthening popular and community struggles that
challenge predatory extractivism and capitalist accumulation from the
grassroots, as we can see in the examples given by the indigenous
peoples in Pará. For example, in February, the strike in unity with
other sectors of the oppressed classes in defense of indigenous
education; and at the COP itself, where, in contrast to the official
discourse of sustainability, they continue to fight for demarcation,
survival, and respect in their own territories. Last Tuesday, the 11th,
the conference was marked by direct action: the occupation of the
so-called Blue Zone (restricted zone of the COP) by indigenous people
from the Lower Tapajós region. The act, led by representatives of
various peoples from the region, denounced the siege imposed on
traditional territories and the exclusionary nature of the event, which
reserves decision-making and visibility spaces for governments and large
corporations. This episode undeniably exposes that the true struggle for
life and the forest is not on the official stages of green diplomacy,
but in the organized resistance of communities that daily confront the
advance of capital.
The crisis is global, and capital has no homeland. The only real
solution will come from below, with the construction of an international
self-managed popular power that contributes to building a social
ecology, associating the preservation of the planet with the fight
against all forms of domination. The climate crisis will only be
overcome with the destruction of capitalism and the State, and their
replacement by a society based on social self-management. Production
should be controlled by the workers, territories by the communities, and
society organized in a federative way.
We do not fight for a "sustainable" capitalism, as that is a
contradiction in itself. The choice is not between the fossil fuel
capitalism of the far-right and the "green" capitalism of social
democracy, as both are paths to barbarism. The only real alternative is
a total break with the system!
BUILD SELF-MANAGED POPULAR POWER!
DIRECT ACTION AGAINST THE STATE AND CAPITAL!
ADVANCE TOWARDS LIBERTARIAN SOCIALISM!
Libertarian Socialist Organization
November 2025
https://socialismolibertario.net/2025/11/15/cop30-e-a-farsa-do-capitalismo-verde/
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climate leader committed to the Amazon. With the participation of
companies such as Exxon, Braskem, Samarco, Vale, and JBS, the conference
exposes the capitalist hypocrisy of so-called greenwashing, in which the
same brands responsible for the planet's depredation seek to present
themselves as sustainable and aligned with climate goals.
It is essential to unmask this charade, because the grand project
continues to be one of deepening forms of exploitation, destruction, and
extermination of nature and indigenous and traditional peoples-no
relation whatsoever to promoting national sovereignty and the
self-determination of the peoples who inhabit this land. This happens
because the Conferences of the Parties (COPs) are not forums to "save
the planet," but rather the opposite; they are business counters where
global capital, mediated by nation-states, redefines the rules of
accumulation to guarantee its own survival. The climate crisis will not
be solved by those who created it and profit from it.
Our criticism should not be confused with the arguments of the
far-right, which are based on scientific denialism and the defense of
accelerating the predatory exploitation of the planet's resources. What
led leaders like Donald Trump and Javier Milei to boycott COP30 was the
denial of any commitment to the preservation of ecosystems, even in a
superficial and farcical way, thus promoting an ideological dispute with
the intention of convincing the working class to defend the interests of
large mining and oil companies, as well as agribusiness, in the
unbridled frenzy for the exploitation of natural resources.
"Global governance" as a structural failure
Three decades of COPs have proven their total failure to curb global
warming. The engine of the climate crisis is the capitalist-statist
system itself, based on the intrinsic need for infinite growth,
incessant accumulation of value, and exploitation of workers and nature.
The COPs aimed to present a "global governance," above the oppressed
classes and even nation-states, that could regulate the system. In
practice, they served only to manage inter-capitalist conflicts,
legitimize "green capitalism," and demobilize the struggle, channeling
righteous popular indignation into institutional lobbying, waiting for
agreements, and trusting the state, corporations, and NGOs, disarming
popular direct action.
COP30 is a showcase of the "false solutions" that represent the new
frontier of capitalist accumulation. Carbon markets, a financialization
of the atmosphere, are based on providing credits to polluting companies
in the Global North to continue polluting, while territories in the
South (such as indigenous lands, quilombola territories, and lands of
traditional communities in Brazil) are transformed into "offset assets."
The reality is land grabbing, the expulsion of communities, and the
right to pollute transformed into a commodity. Under the guise of
"valuing the standing forest," companies are also encroaching on
biodiversity and ancestral knowledge, patenting them and transforming
them into private products.
Even the replacement of fossil fuels with other energy sources (such as
wind, solar, hydrogen, or lithium) leaves intact the logic of excessive
consumption, large-scale production, and the extractive industry. This
"transition" creates new "sacrifice zones," requiring more mining, more
dams, and more exploitation, merely changing the vector of destruction.
The State's Deception and the Developmentalist Illusion
As anarchists, our critique is radical: the State is not a neutral
arbiter that can be "contested" or "pressured" to act on climate change.
The State is the political form of class domination, and its primary
function is to guarantee order and capitalist accumulation, suppressing
any threat to it.
Thus, we reject the illusions propagated by sectors of reformism and
social democracy that believe in the illusion of "political will,"
because the problem is the very nature of the State, which, even under
"progressive" governments, acts as a manager of capital to guarantee the
country's insertion into the international division of labor, with the
re-primarization of the economy, where agribusiness plays a fundamental
role.
Similarly, the defense of "national capitalism" or "strong state-owned
companies" (like Petrobras) are not solutions, since the State acts as a
partner and facilitator of transnational capital. The exploitation of
the pre-salt layer or the advance into the Amazon River Basin are not
manifestations of sovereignty; they are a deepening of predatory
extractivism under the national flag.
The Brazilian context behind COP30
In Brazil, the holding of COP30 in Belém appears as an effort by
capitalist-statism to reposition the country's leading role on the
international environmental stage, while internally it maintains and
even intensifies the extractive and accumulation logic. The Brazilian
government presents the event as "the COP of implementation" and part of
a large "global effort" against climate change, as officially stated by
the COP30 presidency.
However, this self-proclaimed discourse hides profound contradictions:
even within the National Congress, there is a noticeable growing
resistance to the environmental agenda across various governments; an
important example is the approval of drilling in the Amazon River
estuary as the new oil exploration frontier in Brazil, on the country's
northern coast. Another factor is that the country remains far from
meeting its own emission reduction targets, even though some decreases
in deforestation have been recorded.
It is also important to highlight that several organizations denounce
the intense infiltration of fossil fuel, agribusiness, and mining
lobbyists into the COP30 negotiation spaces and demand real transparency
and limitations on corporate influence from the Brazilian presidency.
In practice, Brazil benefits from international visibility for the
Amazon and its "climate leadership" to reinforce its role as a commodity
exporter and stage for large infrastructure projects, while traditional
communities and indigenous peoples continue to face evictions, land
grabbing, and violence. Therefore, COP30 in Brazil functions as a
showcase that masks, under the discourse of care and sustainability, the
continuation of this predatory model.
Our perspective: Libertarian Socialism and Social Ecology
COP30 attracts a diversity of social movements, NGOs, and institutional
entities to Belém. Our task is not to "influence" the official summit,
but to strengthen the real struggles of our class that take place
despite and against the summit. Our role is to ensure that popular
movements are not co-opted by governments, institutional parties, or
NGOs funded by "green" capital, while presenting our anti-capitalist
program within the movements, combating reformist illusions and pointing
towards a revolutionary horizon. We understand that we should not see
"letters of intent" as tools for change, because history shows that
achievements only come through direct action: strikes, occupations, land
reclamations, blockades, and popular self-defense.
The focus cannot be on the State or large international bodies, but
precisely on strengthening popular and community struggles that
challenge predatory extractivism and capitalist accumulation from the
grassroots, as we can see in the examples given by the indigenous
peoples in Pará. For example, in February, the strike in unity with
other sectors of the oppressed classes in defense of indigenous
education; and at the COP itself, where, in contrast to the official
discourse of sustainability, they continue to fight for demarcation,
survival, and respect in their own territories. Last Tuesday, the 11th,
the conference was marked by direct action: the occupation of the
so-called Blue Zone (restricted zone of the COP) by indigenous people
from the Lower Tapajós region. The act, led by representatives of
various peoples from the region, denounced the siege imposed on
traditional territories and the exclusionary nature of the event, which
reserves decision-making and visibility spaces for governments and large
corporations. This episode undeniably exposes that the true struggle for
life and the forest is not on the official stages of green diplomacy,
but in the organized resistance of communities that daily confront the
advance of capital.
The crisis is global, and capital has no homeland. The only real
solution will come from below, with the construction of an international
self-managed popular power that contributes to building a social
ecology, associating the preservation of the planet with the fight
against all forms of domination. The climate crisis will only be
overcome with the destruction of capitalism and the State, and their
replacement by a society based on social self-management. Production
should be controlled by the workers, territories by the communities, and
society organized in a federative way.
We do not fight for a "sustainable" capitalism, as that is a
contradiction in itself. The choice is not between the fossil fuel
capitalism of the far-right and the "green" capitalism of social
democracy, as both are paths to barbarism. The only real alternative is
a total break with the system!
BUILD SELF-MANAGED POPULAR POWER!
DIRECT ACTION AGAINST THE STATE AND CAPITAL!
ADVANCE TOWARDS LIBERTARIAN SOCIALISM!
Libertarian Socialist Organization
November 2025
https://socialismolibertario.net/2025/11/15/cop30-e-a-farsa-do-capitalismo-verde/
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