Overview
- Organizers reported about 50,000 people marched through the city, led by Indigenous groups calling for climate justice and Amazon protection.
- Demonstrators staged a symbolic funeral for coal, oil and gas, while a parallel People’s Summit drew hundreds of civil-society organizations.
- Activists blocked the main entrance on Friday and Indigenous protesters forced their way into the secured zone earlier in the week, heightening pressure on delegates.
- Brazil’s proposal for a fossil-fuel phaseout roadmap gained support from countries including Germany, Denmark, the UK and Kenya, facing resistance from Saudi Arabia and other oil exporters.
- Talks remained stuck over emissions cuts and climate finance, with developing nations pressing for more adaptation funding beyond the $300 billion-by-2035 benchmark agreed in Baku.