The Global TapestryThe weaving of networks of Alternatives of AlternativesAre activities and initiatives, concepts, worldviews, or action proposals by collectives, groups, organizations, communities, or social movements challenging and replacing the dominant system that perpetuates inequality, exploitation, and unsustainabiity. In the GTA we focus primarily on what we call "radical or transformative alternatives", which we define as initiatives that are attempting to break with the dominant system and take paths towards direct and radical forms of political and economic democracy, localised self-reliance, social justice and equity, cultural and knowledge diversity, and ecological resilience. Their locus is neither the State nor the capitalist economy. They are advancing in the process of dismantling most forms of hierarchies, assuming the principles of sufficiency, autonomy, non-violence, justice and equality, solidarity, and the caring of life and the Earth. They do this in an integral way, not limited to a single aspect of life. Although such initiatives may have some kind of link with capitalist markets and the State, they prioritize their autonomy to avoid significant dependency on them and tend to reduce, as much as possible, any relationship with them. (GTAGlobal Tapestry of Alternatives) will be present in Belém for events organized around COP30, because this historic moment demands a clear and critical perspective on how climate politics is being shaped. While governments and large institutions gather to negotiate within the confines of bureaucratic frameworks, the GTA emphasizes that these spaces often fail to address the root causes of the crisis. Instead of minor adjustments or greenwashed compromises, what is urgently needed is a radical transformation of the systems driving ecological and social collapse. GTA’s presence is meant to highlight that the climate crisis cannot be solved by the same logics of growth, development, exploitation, and extractivism that produced it.

Another central reason for GTA’s participation is the need to bring visibility and legitimacy to grassroots alternatives that are already embodying just and sustainable ways of living. Across the world, communities are creating paths of autonomy, resilience, and ecological balance that challenge dominant economic and political paradigms. By participating in Belém, the GTA seeks to put these community-led initiatives at the heart of the conversation, rather than allowing corporate actors, conventional NGOs, and state-centered negotiations to monopolize the stage. The real hope for the future lies in these radical practices, not in bureaucratic delays or superficial policy measures. At this pivotal moment, when climate crisis politics are increasingly co-opted by market-based solutions and technocratic approaches, GTA seeks to amplify voices that call for radical shifts in how humanity relates to nature, society, and the future.

For this reason, the GTA will focus its energy not in the official corridors of COP30, but in the critical spaces where real alternatives are nurtured. This includes the People’s Summit and other self-organized forums led by social movements, Indigenous struggles, environmental defenders, and rights of nature initiatives. By weaving together these diverse voices, the GTA contributes to building a broader horizon of systemic change—one that goes beyond mere reform and points towards truly transformative pathways. Belém will thus be a vital moment for strengthening solidarity, amplifying grassroots struggles, and reaffirming that another world is not only possible, but already being built.

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From November 8–11, 2025, GARN will host four days of movement-building events leading up to COP30. We’re celebrating our 15-year anniversary, bringing together Indigenous leaders, holding internal strategy meetings, and concluding our historic 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal with a New Pledge for Mother Nature.

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Social and popular movements, coalitions, collectives, networks, forums, alliances, and civil society organizations from Brazil and around the world are building the People's Summit Towards COP 30. The People's Summit is an autonomous and independent space, aimed at strengthening popular construction and converging agendas for unity on the socio-environmental, anti-patriarchal, anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, anti-casteist anti-racist, sexual and gender diversity, the rights of peoples, and the defense of territories. More than ever, we need to advance in collective spaces that defend democracy and internationalist solidarity, confronting the far-right, fascism, fundamentalisms, wars, the financialization of nature, land grabbing, and the climate crisis.

GTA's members will participate in various instances of the People's Summit.

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The climate crisis has opened the door to a range of technological proposals that seek to maintain the capitalist system with modifications that do not question the causes of the problem, including climate manipulation or geoengineering. These initiatives—such as solar radiation management, chemical alkalisation of the sea, and carbon capture and sequestration—are part of the same logic of extraction, dispossession, and violence that caused the climate crisis in the first place. This session seeks to demystify technological neutrality and highlight the ecological, social, and political risks of these interventions. The aim is to open up a reflection on how these false solutions divert attention from the necessary structural transformations.

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From 8 to 11 November 2025, the Latin American and Caribbean ecosocialist movement will converge in Belém for the second edition of the Latin American and Caribbean Ecosocialist Encounter. This event will bring together activists, indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant communities, workers’ organisations, scholars and social movements from across the region, sharing experiences and strategies for building alternatives to capitalism. It carries forward the call from the earlier international meetings of the Network of Ecosocialist Encounters to move “from denunciations and defensive struggles to the construction of a global strategy to confront the structural causes produced by capitalist commodification and looting”.

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​The 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal continues with its third and final session titled A New Pledge For Mother Nature, a culminating event that will bring together findings, judgments, and reflections from the two previous sessions of this 6th historic Tribunal. Taking place in Belém, this final hearing will center on the most pressing environmental challenges of our time, especially those driven by fossil fuel dependency and extractive models disguised as green transitions. It will revisit the judgments delivered during the previous sessions in New York and Toronto, which addressed the end of the fossil fuel era and corporate and governmental accountability, while positioning the Rights of Nature as a legal and ethical response to the planetary crisis. The GTA's vision will be presented at this event, with Ashish Kothari as a panel judge. Shrishtee Bajpai will also be present on the panel “Victories for the Rights of Nature and Alternatives.”

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Join us in this crucial pre-COP30 discussion. This half-day session seeks to create a space of reflection about the failures of official climate negotiations by spotlighting the real, grassroots pathways out of the climate crisis—namely, forms of direct self-governance, autonomy, and constructive alternatives practiced by Indigenous peoples, radical alternatives and local communities worldwide. We come together to discuss how these movements are intimately connected to food sovereignty, solidarity economies, social justice, and the rights of nature. Come to contribute your ideas for integrating radical democracy and climate justice.

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