{"id":277546,"date":"2025-11-12T02:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277546\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:14:06","slug":"tussles-break-out-between-protesters-and-security-at-cop30-in-brazil-cop30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277546\/","title":{"rendered":"Tussles break out between protesters and security at Cop30 in Brazil | Cop30"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were tussles between protesters and security guards at the Cop30<\/a> climate talks late on Tuesday night, when a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people stormed the conference centre in Bel\u00e9m.<\/p>\n

Several dozen men and women, some in brightly coloured feather headdress, ran through the entrance, pushing at least one door off its hinges, before striding through the metal detectors and entering the Blue Zone.<\/p>\n

UN security guards rushed to stop them, leading to grabbing, shoving and yelling. At least one non-Indigenous man in the area was carrying a banner that read \u201cOur forests are not for sale\u201d. Others wore T-shirts saying \u201cJuntos\u201d (Together).<\/p>\n

They waved banners and chanted until being forcibly removed. A UN climate spokesperson said two security guards received minor injuries, and there was minor damage to the venue.<\/p>\n

After the confrontation, the protesters left the venue and uniformed fire brigade officers formed a cordon to block the entrance.<\/p>\n

It is not yet clear who was responsible for the intrusion. But at least one observer was impressed: \u201cAt last, something has happened here,\u201d said Juan Carlos Monterrey-G\u00f3mez, a Panamanian climate negotiator.<\/p>\n

Agustin Oca\u00f1a, from the Global Youth Coalition, told the Associated Press some of the people entering were chanting \u201cthey cannot decide for us without us,\u201d referring to tensions over participation of Indigenous people in the conference.
As security and marchers clashed, Oca\u00f1a said he saw protesters and security hitting each other with small plastic bins used to hold items near secure entrances. One guard was bleeding from being hit in the head, he said.<\/p>\n

Oca\u00f1a said some Indigenous communities had been frustrated watching resources pour into building \u201ca whole new city\u201d in Bel\u00e9m when spending was needed on education, health and forest protection elsewhere. \u201cThey were not doing this because they were bad people. They\u2019re desperate, trying to protect their land, the [Amazon] river,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The UN spokesperson said Brazilian and UN security personnel had taken \u201cprotective actions to secure the venue, following all established security protocols\u201d and were investigating the incident. \u201cThe venue is full secured and Cop negotiations continue,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Unlike the past three Cops, which were held in countries with varying degrees of authoritarian government, the Brazilian hosts are actively encouraging civil society and street demonstration to play a role in this conference.<\/p>\n

Indigenous groups and NGOs have already been more visible inside and outside the venue, helping to balance out the armies of lobbyists that have dominated recent climate gatherings. A \u201cpeople\u2019s summit\u201d will be held on Thursday and Friday and a global youth rally will take place on Friday, with the biggest demonstration scheduled for Saturday.<\/p>\n

Activists have been growing in number over the past week and are already organising up to four events a day, all of which had been peaceful, until now. On Tuesday, there were protests by a feminist collective, pro-Palestine supporters and a health-and-environment group.<\/p>\n

Many more activists will arrive tomorrow in a flotilla, estimated at about 100 vessels, led by two of the Amazon rainforest\u2019s most respected Indigenous leaders, Raoni Metuktire and Davi Kopenawa Yanomami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were tussles between protesters and security guards at the Cop30 climate talks late on Tuesday night, when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-277546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}