The official site of the “The Answer Is Us” campaign is now available.
The campaign “The Answer Is Us” echoes voices from different territories — peoples of the forests, the waters, the countryside and the cities — in an urgent global mobilization for climate and life, leading up to COP30, which will be held in November, in Belém (PA). All information can be accessed at theanswerisus.org
The members of the campaign reinforce that science confirms what ancestral knowledge always flagged: there is no climate justice without territorial, social and popular justice.
The campaign was created by the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon and Brazil, launched by the COIAB (Coordenação das Organizações Indígenas da Amazônia Brasileira) in June 2024. It was then joined by APIB (the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil), the Amazon G9 and the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities, gaining strength at national and international level. Now, it also includes social and activist movements from different parts of the world.
Campaign demands:
- Land Rights = Climate action: proteger territórios é proteger toda a vida no planeta. Sem reforma agrária, demarcação, titulação, regularização fundiária e proteção integral, não haverá ecossistemas capazes de conter o colapso climático.
- Desmatamento zero: frear a destruição que gera grandes emissões de carbono e devasta os ecossistemas reguladores do clima global é uma urgência.
- Não aos combustíveis fósseis e à mineração: petróleo, gás e carvão são os principais causadores da crise global, e essa indústria bilionária precisa ser desmontada. A campanha também rejeita projetos de transição energética que violem territórios, exigindo uma transição justa, soberana e que priorize a vida sobre o lucro.
- Proteção dos defensores e modos de vida: é necessária proteção imediata e integral para quem defende a terra, as águas, as florestas e o clima. Não haverá política climática justa enquanto persistir a impunidade e violência.
- Acesso direto ao financiamento climático: os recursos para enfrentar a crise devem chegar diretamente a quem está na linha de frente — povos da floresta, das águas, do campo e das cidades. A campanha exige repasses sem burocracia colonial ou intermediários.
- Participation with real power: COP30 will be held in the Amazon. We demand a dignified, permanent presence with real power in decision-making. We will not accept playing the part of extras in a stage that decides the fate of the climate—and our lives—far away from us. Climate justice is built with real participation, not behind closed doors.
Call for global mobilizations
APIB calls on organizations and individuals to mobilize in communities, streets, squares, and centers of power. The next mobilization of the “We Are the Answer” campaign will be on October 13th.
Partner organizations are encouraged to hold demonstrations in their territories and use the mobilization materials available in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, and Bahasa on the campaign website—posters, banners, and t-shirts are already ready for use.