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Away from the official Cop30 negotiations, members of the Amazon’s indigenous communities were gathering in Belém’s university yesterday for the inauguration of a parallel People’s Summit.
Pictures filed by news agencies showed people dancing, singing and mingling at the event, on the grounds of the Federal University of Para, just a couple of miles from the conference centre where the UN climate summit is taking place.
The opening included small protests, singing and dancing, as well as speeches led by Indigenous communities from across the Amazon, according to a report by the Associated Press. “Here we are heard, here our voices are listened to,” Inés Antonia Santos Ribeiro, a professor at the university, was quoted as saying.
This year’s climate conference is the first being held in the Amazon rainforest, a symbolic choice by the host country, Brazil, in part to ensure that Indigenous peoples have a larger presence.
