President of Honduras Xiomara Castro: Capitalism is the main environmental executioner

Published at: 06/11/2025 10:10 PM

The president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, used her speech at the COP30 in Belém do Pará, Brazil, to denounce capitalism as the main environmental executioner and demand global climate justice.

In this regard, the president affirmed that, just as the 1994 Convention signed in the same Brazilian city enshrined the right of women to live free from violence, “the earth also has the right to live free from abuse, exploitation and violence.”

The president, who chairs the Coalition of Countries with Tropical Forests, said that the Summit “brings back to the South the voice of hope and life.”

Castro denounced “climate inequality”, pointing out that “100 corporations generate 71% of polluting emissions” and that the Global North, with only 10% of the population, produces more than half of the gases that destroy the climate. In parallel, he argued that climate change “is an open wound that bleeds in our peoples.”

Mazo News Team