Overview
- More than 60 indigenous activists from Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, Brazil, and Mexico arrived in Belém after a 31-day voyage to open COP30.
- They held a press conference aboard their vessel to press for climate justice, emphasizing indigenous stewardship of the Amazon.
- The delegation calls for stopping further oil expansion in the Amazon and for direct, effective financing to the peoples protecting the forest.
- Ecuadorian activist Katty Gualinga criticized current climate finance as designed to make communities fail and contrasted it with ongoing fossil fuel subsidies in wealthy countries.
- Participants said the journey began in Ecuador and traversed Peru and Colombia into Brazil to document varied Amazon realities and underscore the forest’s global climate importance.