Brazil is going to host this year’s United Nations climate talks, spotlighting indigenous people, whose livelihood depends on the Amazon Rainforest in the city of Belem. 

Indigenous protestors disrupted entry to the main venue for COP30 on Friday to demand progress on climate change and other issues. This march was carried out for the second time in the week and disrupted the participants’ movement, leading to long lines to get in for the day’s events. One protestor compared it to rights being violated and decisions made without consulting the indigenous.