Hundreds of environmental and human rights groups and activists have penned a letter urging the upcoming UN climate conference, COP30, in Brazil to place justice and reparations for people unfairly affected by the climate crisis, colonialism and slavery at the centre of talks.

The signatories, which include Brazil’s Instituto Luiz Gama and the Caribbean Pan African Network (CPAN), urged organisers on Friday to “centre the voices of Africans, people of African descent and Indigenous Peoples” at the upcoming meeting in Maloca, in the Brazilian Amazon, from November 10 to 21 this year.

“We call for justice for the countries and people of the world who have historically contributed the least to climate change, but who are often among the hardest hit by it,” the activists said in their letter

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