Protesters Blockade Cop30 Summit Over Plight of Indigenous Peoples
November 14, 2025 | Source: The Guardian | by Oliver Milman, Jonathan Watts, Damien Gayle and Fiona Harvey
Protesters blockaded the main entrance to the Cop30 climate conference for several hours early on Friday morning, demanding to speak to Brazil’s president about the plight of the country’s Indigenous peoples.
About 50 people from the Munduruku people in the Amazon basin blocked the entrance with some assistance from international green groups, watched by a huge phalanx of riot police, soldiers and military vehicles.
They hoped to speak to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to explain their grievances. “We demand the presence of President Lula, but unfortunately we are unable to do so, as always,” said one of the protesters. “We were always barred, we were never listened to.”
Instead the group had to settle for André Corrêa do Lago, the amiable Cop president, who spent more than an hour listening and talking to the group’s representatives.
Long queues formed outside the centre and delegates were diverted to a small side entrance. Eventually the activists relocated to a building to hold further discussions with Corrêa do Lago.