Photos show Indigenous participants at the People's Summit held alongside the COP30 climate meeting

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — While delegates at a U.N. conference discussed how to fulfill past promises on fighting climate change, a boisterous gathering focused on the same topic from a very different perspective was taking shape.

Scores of Indigenous people danced, sang and enjoyed each other’s company in Belem, Brazil, the city on the edge of the Amazon that is hosting this year's conference, known as COP30.