Climate Protest Revives at UN Talks Held in Democratic Brazil

Beginning at dawn on Friday, dozens of people from Brazil’s Indigenous Munduruku group assembled at the venue of the United Nations’ COP30 climate summit in the city of Belém and blocked the entrance. They demanded a meeting with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, denounced illegal gold mining and questioned infrastructure for transporting soybeans being built near their territory, in the Tapajós River basin of the Amazon region.

“Enough of using our image to claim sustainability and bio-economy while they destroy our forest,” said Alessandra Korap, a Munduruku leader who won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2023.

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