Brazil: After a weeks-long journey from the glaciers of the Andes to Brazil’s tropical coast, a flotilla carrying dozens of Indigenous leaders arrived in Belém, a day before the United Nations COP30 climate summit commenced. Their mission: to demand meaningful participation in decisions about their territories amid mounting climate change pressures and industrial encroachment.

Among the approximately 60 delegates, Lucia Ixchiu, a K’iche’ Indigenous leader from Guatemala, emphasized that their goal went beyond financial compensation. “We want to reach a consensus where Indigenous territories are no longer sacrificed,” she told Reuters aboard the expedition vessel navigating the Amazon. The delegation highlighted that nearly 17% of Indigenous and local community lands in the Amazon face i

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