Overview
- Organizers reported about 50,000 people marching in Belém, with Indigenous leaders at the front and the rally ending peacefully near the COP site.
- Security tensions rose earlier in the week, with a multi-hour blockade of the main gate on Friday and an attempted breach of the Blue Zone entrance on Tuesday.
- Talks remain stuck over a roadmap to phase out oil, gas and coal, with Brazil’s proposal backed by countries including Germany, Denmark, the UK and Kenya, and opposed by Saudi Arabia and other oil‑rich states.
- Disputes over climate finance persist, as developing nations press for more support and some industrialized countries point to last year’s at‑least $300 billion per year by 2035 commitment.
- Civil society kept up pressure through a parallel People’s Summit and a 200‑boat Guamá River flotilla of roughly 5,000 people, while COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago pledged a Sunday synthesis and ministers began arriving.