The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference will take place from November 10 to 21, 2025, in Belém, the capital of the state of Pará in the Amazon region of northern Brazil. It will include the 30th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 30), the 20th meeting of the COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 20), and the seventh meeting of the COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 7), as well as the 63rd sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 63) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 63).
It is in this context, just before the conference, that the Brazilian Green Party issued a statement in which it makes a number of recommendations to its government, including legislative reforms that prioritize the environment in all areas, recognizing nature as a subject of rights. The Green Party advocates for the recognition of the right to a healthy environment as a fundamental human right at the international level, thus limiting the power of states in the name of preserving essential values for humanity.
We, members of the Green Party, a political ecology instrument founded in 1986, gathered in Belém, Pará—the city that will host COP30 in November 2025—address the negotiators and the international community to express our concerns and commitments in the face of the climate crisis that threatens life on Planet Earth.
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Our central objective is to guarantee the government legal instruments capable of enforcing environmental protection legislation. It is essential not to succumb to the power of capital and profit at any cost. Environmental rights, as third-dimensional rights, must be preserved. If we continue to do nothing, we will soon be unable to guarantee the constitutional right to an ecologically balanced environment, as established in Article 225 of the 1988 Federal Constitution.
In Brazil, we have both constitutional guarantees and several infra-constitutional laws aimed at protecting nature, such as the National Environmental Policy (Law 6.938/81), which established instruments, quality standards, and environmental impact assessments. But these regulations need to move beyond the drawing board and become reality.
The environmental crisis demands swift, effective, and courageous responses. We need legislative changes that prioritize the environment in all legal and political relationships that may affect it, recognizing nature as a subject of rights. This leads us to the need to establish a Natural Pact.
The philosopher Michel Serres, in proposing the “Natural Contract,” warns that humanity’s relationship with nature has been akin to parasitism: humans appropriate everything without giving anything in return, condemning their host—the Earth—to extinction. It is time to reformulate the Social Contract and incorporate the Natural Contract into it, recognizing nature as a partner in rights and duties.
As is already the case in the global human rights protection system, we advocate that the right to an ecologically balanced environment be recognized as jus cogens at the international level, limiting the will of States in the name of preserving values essential to humanity.
The effectiveness of this right depends on collective action. Human beings and nature are inseparable. Humans will only have the right to a balanced environment if they are capable of preserving it. Sustainability is, therefore, a condition of survival.
Capitalism, in its predatory form, has generated multiple attacks on nature, wars over territories, and violence against climate refugees. It is necessary to understand that without limits, humanity itself will not exist. The Natural Pact must be established urgently, through clear and binding rules that give nature a voice, guaranteeing its integrity and permanence.
Therefore, we submit the following points for discussion at this conference, in a spirit of international cooperation and ethical commitment:
- Climate and Social Justice
The climate crisis is also social. Its impacts fall most heavily on the poor, indigenous peoples, traditional communities, quilombolas, and peripheral populations. Climate justice means social equity, the pursuit of global and economic peace between peoples and generations.
- Implementation of the Paris Agreement
COP30 must be the COP of implementation. The Green Party, in this regard, demands:
Full compliance with National Climate Action Plans (NDCs), ensuring trajectories compatible with the 1.5°C limit above pre-industrial levels.
The gradual elimination of fossil fuels, with clear and monitored timelines.
The acceleration of the just energy transition, financed by profits from the use of fossil fuels, based on renewable, decentralized, and sustainable energy, with resources allocated from national, state, and municipal budgets.
The creation of a biannual dashboard to monitor CO₂ emissions from countries that signed the Paris Agreement.
- Financing and International Responsibility
It is urgent to review and ensure the mobilization of the annual financing commitment of US$100 million for developing countries, as established in Paris, ensuring that resources reach the communities and territories most vulnerable to the climate crisis in a transparent manner.
- The Amazon as the Planet’s Climate Heart
We advocate for a Green Pact for the Amazon’s Future, capable of respecting traditional communities and generating jobs and income without destroying the forest. We want to transform the Amazon into a laboratory for sustainable solutions for the world, combining science, traditional knowledge, bioeconomy, technological innovation, and social justice. Educational and research institutions in the Amazon are prepared to implement such a plan.
- Female Protagonism and Climate Justice
Female protagonism in the fight against the climate crisis, as a central agent in environmental preservation and the building of resilient societies.
The need to ensure women’s empowerment and access to political and environmental decision-making spaces.
The valorization of women’s traditional and community knowledge, incorporating local practices and ancestral wisdom into natural resource management and public sustainability policies.
The connection between gender equality and climate justice, promoting integrated policies that recognize the differentiated impacts of the climate crisis and strengthen women’s political participation.
- Call to Collective Action
It’s not enough to be outraged: it’s time to act. COP30 must mark a turning point. The people of the Amazon, Brazil, and the world will not accept setbacks. The future demands political courage, international cooperation, and ethical commitment.
Belém do Pará, September 2025
Green Party
Green Foundation Hebert Daniel
