Overview
- The Munduruku’s roughly 90‑minute blockade of COP30’s main gate ended peacefully after on‑site talks with conference president André Corrêa do Lago, with access restored via an alternate entrance as UN staff relocated security screening.
- The protesters’ demands target Brazil’s Amazon development plans, including revoking the National Hydrovias proposal, canceling the near‑1,000‑km Ferrogrão railway, clarifying Indigenous land demarcations, and rejecting deforestation carbon credits.
- Targeted actions widened pressure on fossil‑fuel finance as activists in Pikachu costumes urged Japan to halt coal and gas lending, citing a study that found JBIC provided $6.4 billion for coal and $874 million for gas projects from 2016 to 2024.
- Thousands marched in Belém on Saturday in a coordinated demonstration featuring a symbolic “funeral for fossil fuels,” with international groups from Kenya, the Philippines and Malaysia calling for climate justice and direct financing.
- With talks stuck over whether to prioritize larger climate finance flows or stronger mitigation roadmaps, the presidency paired ministers from different blocs to try to unlock progress on finance, mitigation and adaptation files.