Reclaim the Planet from Climate Imperialism and War!

Statement of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) on the Outcomes of COP30 in Belém, Brazil

As COP30 concludes in Belém, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle denounces this summit as another imperialist climate spectacle dressed up as “implementation.” The governments and corporations most responsible for historical emissions, ecological destruction, and wars of aggression again used the UNFCCC as their stage to greenwash plunder, protect profit, and tighten control over the world’s resources and peoples. While they speak of “ambition” and “implementation,” their real agenda is to preserve an imperialist system that sacrifices the many and the planet for the superprofits of the few.

The much‑trumpeted Belém outcomes confirm this. Even as they admit that current pledges fall far short of keeping warming below catastrophic levels, imperialist powers refuse to commit to mandatory, rapid, and deep emissions cuts at the scale science and justice demand. The so‑called “Belém Package” and “Mutirão decision” are presented as breakthroughs, yet they entrench the same unequal, profit‑driven order that created the climate crisis in the first place. New climate finance and adaptation pledges are framed as generosity, but they rely on loans, blended finance, and market instruments that deepen the debt and dependency of poorer economies on banks, creditors, and corporations instead of delivering unconditional climate reparations to frontline peoples based on historical responsibility.

The establishment of new loss and damage arrangements and facilities is trumpeted as justice, yet they remain underfunded, bureaucratic, and subject to the dictates of wealthy states and financial institutions. There is no binding obligation on imperialist countries to pay their historical climate debt, no automatic triggers for rapid disbursement after disasters, and no guarantee that funds will reach affected communities rather than consultants, intermediaries, and corporate “implementing partners.” What is sold as solidarity is in reality another tool to recycle monopoly capital and control less wealthy economies.

Most damning is the cowardice on fossil fuels. After decades of talks, with the Amazon itself as backdrop, COP30 still failed to adopt a clear, equitable fossil fuel phaseout. Instead of binding commitments, governments settled for recycled language and vague references to “transitioning away” while promoting unproven technologies, carbon capture and storage, and “net zero” strategies that permit continued extraction and burning so long as emissions are papered over by offsets. These so‑called solutions open new frontiers for profit while pushing the costs and risks of climate chaos onto workers, peasants, indigenous peoples, and the poor. In the end major producers and petrostates safeguarded their extraction plans. The absence of the US government from the summit is not a sign of weakness but of arrogance: it continues to expand drilling, fracking, and military emissions while refusing to be bound even by this already weak outcome.

The much‑promoted “just transition” and Belém‑branded initiatives show the same pattern. They use the language of workers’ rights, indigenous participation, and community benefits, but keep control of energy, minerals, and technology firmly in corporate and imperialist hands. Critical minerals and “clean” technologies are framed as new development frontiers, justifying fresh waves of mining, land grabs, and green mega‑projects across the Global South. Climate imperialism is now also exploiting deep sea mining, an excuse for promoting so-called renewable energy. Forest and nature finance are packaged as protection, while in practice they expand carbon markets, offsets, and “nature‑based solutions” that commodify forests and territories, displace Indigenous and rural communities, and militarize conservation. This is climate imperialism: the same transnational corporations and imperialist states seize land, water, minerals, and biodiversity in the name of climate action, while frontline communities are displaced, criminalized, and militarized when they resist.

In all this, the climate devastation caused by imperialist wars and the military‑industrial complex remains practically invisible. Emissions from bases, arms production, and active wars are still largely unaccounted for, while the ecocide and genocide in Palestine and other war zones are ignored in the official texts. The same powers that fuel these wars chair panels on “peaceful” climate cooperation and congratulate themselves on incremental finance.

Against this backdrop, the real light in Belém came from indigenous blockades, mass marches, workers and peasants, youth and women asserting that climate justice is inseparable from anti‑imperialist struggle. For the first time since Glasgow, a vibrant People’s COP gathered tens of thousands in protest, assemblies, and direct actions that broke through the summit’s controlled script. These people’s actions are the true verdict on COP30: a system based on imperialist plunder, war, and exploitation cannot solve the crisis it created.

The lesson from Belém is unmistakable: there can be no genuine climate justice under monopoly capitalism and imperialism. The path forward lies not in trusting summits dominated by polluters and war‑makers, but in building powerful, organized peoples’ movements that confront imperialism in all its forms—economic, political, military, and ecological. The oppressed and exploited of the world must link struggles for land, wages, public services, demilitarization, and national and social liberation into a united fight for a socialist future where production is planned to meet human needs and protect the Earth, not to feed profit.

Reclaim the planet from imperialist plunder and militarism!

Intensify the people’s struggle against climate imperialism!

Organize, educate, and mobilize—until people and planet finally prevail over profit and war!

Signed,

International League of Peoples’ Struggle