Here in Brazil, tens of thousands of protesters marched outside the COP30 climate summit in Belém Saturday to demand urgent action on the climate, including the rapid phaseout of fossil fuels. The “Great People’s March” was the first major protest of its kind in four years, after authorities in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Azerbaijan banned large-scale demonstrations at prior U.N. climate summits. This is Indigenous protester Cristiane Puyanawa.

Cristiane Puyanawa: “We are here today at the global climate march. Women, youths, Indigenous peoples, riverine communities and quilombolas are united to demand social justice and the demarcation of Indigenous lands. Our land and our forest are not commodities. Respect nature and the people who live in the forest. Demarcation now!”

We’ll have more from Saturday’s protests and the action inside the COP30 climate summit here in Belém, Brazil, after headlines.