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A flotilla kicks off the People’s Summit for activists at UN climate talks
Activists and Indigenous groups paddled to amplify marginalized voices and urge climate action during COP30, highlighting the need for implementing past promises, organizers said.
- A flotilla on Guajara Bay marked the People’s Summit opening on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, with scores of boats carrying activists, organizers, environmentalists and Indigenous groups outside COP30 venues.
- This COP centers on implementing prior commitments, with organizers and analysts saying COP30 focuses on specifics to execute past promises over the two-week summit.
- Participants staged ceremonial paddling and moments of prayer, pressing foreheads together and holding hands while Pooven Moodley said, `The current canoe we're in is falling apart, it's leaking, people are being pushed over, and ultimately we're heading for a massive waterfall.`
- U.N. officials said two security guards were slightly injured after activists who attempted entry broke barricades at the main COP venue on Tuesday night, while many praised Brazil for freer public expression.
- Activists are pressing negotiators to center historically marginalized communities and curb harmful emissions, while Jacob Johns said `not in the halls of the U.N. COP, but it's in the streets and it is with our people.
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A flotilla kicks off the People’s Summit for activists at UN climate talks
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A flotilla kicks off the People's Summit for activists at UN climate talks
As United Nation climate talks get underway in Belem, a different kind of conference is kicking off: the People’s Summit, a gathering of activists, organizers, environmentalists and Indigenous groups from around the world.
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