The Global TapestryThe weaving of networks of Alternatives 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) was present in Belém for COP30 because this historic moment demanded a clear and critical perspective on how climate policy is being shaped. While governments and large institutions met to negotiate within the confines of bureaucratic frameworks, the GTA emphasized that these spaces often fail to address the root causes of the crisis. Instead of minor adjustments or green-washing compromises, what is urgently needed is a radical transformation of the systems that drive ecological and social collapse. GTA's presence aimed to highlight that the climate crisis cannot be solved with the same logic of growth, development, exploitation, and extractivism that caused it.

Another fundamental reason for the GTA's participation was the need to give visibility and legitimacy to grassroots alternatives that are already embodying just and sustainable ways of life. Around the world, communities are creating paths of autonomy, resilience, and ecological balance that challenge dominant economic and political paradigms. With its participation in Belém, the GTA placed these community initiatives at the center of the debate, 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 political measures. At this crucial moment, when climate crisis policy is increasingly co-opted by market-based solutions and technocratic approaches, GTA sought to amplify the voices calling for radical changes in the way humanity relates to nature, society, and the future.

For this reason, GTA focused its energy not on the official corridors of COP30, but on 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 initiatives for the rights of nature. By weaving together these diverse voices, the GTA contributes to building a broader horizon of systemic change that goes beyond mere reform and points toward truly transformative paths. Belém was, therefore, 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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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 alkalization 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 sought to demystify technological neutrality and highlight the ecological, social, and political risks of these interventions. The aim was to open a reflection on how these false solutions divert attention from the necessary structural transformations.

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From November 8 to 11, 2025, the Latin American and Caribbean ecosocialist movement gathered in Belém for the second edition of the Latin American and Caribbean Ecosocialist Meeting. This event brought together activists, indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant communities, workers' organizations, academics, and social movements from across the region, who shared experiences and strategies for building alternatives to capitalism. The call from previous international meetings of the Network of Ecosocialist Encounters to move “from denunciations and defensive struggles to the construction of a global strategy to address the structural causes produced by capitalist commodification and plunder” was reiterated.

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​The Sixth International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature continued with its third and final session, entitled “A New Commitment to Mother Nature,” a culminating event that brought together the conclusions, judgments, and reflections of the two previous sessions of this historic Sixth Tribunal. This final hearing, held in Belém, focused on the most pressing environmental challenges of our time, especially those driven by dependence on fossil fuels and extractive models disguised as green transitions. It reviewed the judgments issued during the previous sessions in New York and Toronto, which addressed the end of the fossil fuel era and corporate and government responsibility, while positioning the Rights of Nature as a legal and ethical response to the planetary crisis.

The GTA's vision was present at this event with Ashish Kothari serving as a judge on the panel. In addition, Shrishtee Bajpai was present on the panel “Victories for the Rights of Nature and Alternatives.”

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Organized by Global Tapestry of Alternatives, Well-being Economy Alliance, World Social Assembly of Struggles, Global Forest Coalition, Global Alliance for Rights of Nature, War on Want.

This half-day session aimed to create a space for reflection on the failures of official climate negotiations, highlighting real and popular ways out of the climate crisis, namely the forms of direct self-government, autonomy, and constructive alternatives practiced by indigenous peoples, radical alternatives, and local communities around the world. We gathered to discuss how these movements are closely linked to food sovereignty, solidarity economies, social justice, and the rights of nature. Participants contributed their ideas for integrating radical democracy and climate justice.

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From November 8 to 11, 2025, GARN organized four days of events to boost momentum ahead of COP30. We celebrated our 15th anniversary by bringing together Indigenous leaders, holding internal strategic meetings, and concluding our historic Sixth International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature with a renewed commitment to 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 built the People's Summit Towards COP 30. The People's Summit is an autonomous and independent space whose objective is to strengthen popular construction and bring together agendas of unity around socio-environmental, anti-patriarchal, anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, anti-caste, and anti-racist diversity, 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 extreme right, fascism, fundamentalisms, wars, the financialization of nature, land grabbing, and the climate crisis.

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

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