{"id":139091,"date":"2025-11-17T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/139091\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:00:12","slug":"thousands-march-in-brazil-town-hosting-cop30-for-climate-justice-climate-crisis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/139091\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands march in Brazil town hosting COP30 for climate justice | Climate Crisis News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tens of thousands of people have thronged the streets of an Amazonian city hosting the COP30 talks, dancing to pounding speakers in the first large-scale protest<\/a> at a United Nations climate summit in years.<\/p>\n

As the first week of climate negotiations limped to a close with nations deadlocked, Indigenous people and activists sang, chanted, and rolled a giant beach ball of Earth through Belem under a searing sun.<\/p>\n

Others held a mock funeral procession for fossil fuels, dressed in black and posing as grieving widows as they carried three coffins marked with the words \u201ccoal\u201d, \u201coil\u201d and \u201cgas\u201d.<\/p>\n

It was the first major protest outside the annual climate talks since COP26 four years ago in Glasgow, as the last three gatherings had been held in locations with little tolerance for demonstrations \u2013 Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

Called the \u201cGreat People\u2019s March\u201d by the organisers, the Belem rally came at the halfway point of difficult negotiations and followed two Indigenous-led protests that disrupted proceedings earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday we are witnessing a massacre as our forest is being destroyed,\u201d said Benedito Huni Kuin, a 50-year-old member of the Huni Kuin Indigenous group from western Brazil.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make our voices heard from the Amazon and demand results,\u201d he added. \u201cWe need more Indigenous representatives at COP to defend our rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their demands include \u201creparations\u201d for damages caused by corporations and governments, particularly to marginalised communities.<\/p>\n

After a 4.5km (2.8-mile) march through the city, the demonstration halted a few blocks from the COP30 venue, where authorities deployed soldiers to protect the site.<\/p>\n

Inside the venue, COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago admitted that the first exhaustive week of negotiations had failed to yield a breakthrough and urged diplomats not to run down the clock with time-wasting manoeuvres.<\/p>\n

Countries remained at odds over trade measures and weak climate targets, while a showdown looms over demands that wealthy nations triple the finance they provide to poorer states to adapt to a warming world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published On 16 Nov 202516 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Tens of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,4442,56613,273,1229,23711,111,43,139,69,13316,147,16940],"class_list":{"0":"post-139091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-climate","10":"tag-climate-crisis","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-gallery","13":"tag-latin-america","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-protests","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-united-nations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}