What are the Limits of our Narratives?

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My question is what are the limits of our narrative. Regardless of how we present ourselves, I present myself here as a communicator, activist, and mobilizer. I love thinking about narrative strategies, but I know they are insufficient when I think about territorial contexts that I do not belong to.

We are at COP30, which is the COP of the Amazon. COP is taking place in a Black country. So how do these Afro-descendant narratives, which are one of the themes guiding this panel, rise up and gain prominence or become silenced depending on the context we are in.

I also want to share that I recently conducted some research during this first week of COP to understand how many times the term climate justice appeared in traditional or alternative media and how it was trending. In a brief Google search, using a tool called Google Trends, which allows us to rank how often people search for a term and how often it appears again in headlines, on radio, and in newspapers, there was an enormous spike just in these first days of COP.

That is because Brazil wants to understand why climate justice has been appearing so frequently in the media. The world wants to know. And those who are not in the environment we are in here, where narratives are being constructed, also want to understand, but through other definitions and not only through the definitions of organizations.