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– Indigenous and Amazon-based communities unveil globe installation at COP30 construction site.
- – Declaration demands protection of forests, oil industry rollback, and community-led climate solutions.
– Protest underscores urgency amid Brazil’s controversial deforestation-linked infrastructure ahead of summit.
On 23 July 2025, a coalition of Indigenous peoples, traditional communities, and social movements from across the Amazon staged a powerful demonstration at the COP30 construction site in Belém, Brazil. In front of the future Blue Zone—the official summit venue—they erected a melting globe stained with oil, symbolising global climate emergency. Participants held banners reading messages such as “The Climate Won’t Wait – It’s Time to Act,” “The Answer Is Us,” and “Keep the Forest Standing, Leave Oil and Gas Underground”.
The protest marked the release of the “Declaration of the Amazon Peoples’ Gathering for COP30: The Answer Is Us,” a collectively drafted political statement outlining concrete demands to global leaders. Signatories call for immediate demarcation of Indigenous territories, cessation of deforestation and oil exploration, direct climate finance to forest communities, and recognition of Indigenous knowledge as key to real climate solutions. The action signals rising tension as Brazil undertakes controversial infrastructure projects—such as a new highway slicing through the rainforest ahead of COP30—drawing criticism for undermining the very conservation goals the summit seeks to advance.
