On Wednesday, thousands of climate activists in Belém, Brazil, launched a People’s Summit Flotilla to demand urgent action at the COP30 U.N. climate talks. This is Carolina Pasquali, director of Greenpeace Brazil.

Carolina Pasquali: “We are actually bringing climate negotiators and climate leaders to the heart of the forest to experience firsthand what it is to live here, remembering that the Amazon is a tipping point and that the population here are suffering. We are suffering from droughts. We are suffering from climate change, from fires. This forest is a rainforest that should not burn. It doesn’t burn naturally. It only burns because there is a human ignition and because the forest is drier.”