By Adriano Machado

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Dozens of Indigenous protesters blocked the front of the COP30 summit venue in Brazil on Friday morning, staging a sit-in that forced delegates to use a side entrance to resume their negotiations on tackling climate change.

Security guards stepped up checks during the peaceful protest, and delegates formed long lines waiting to enter the sprawling compound, which is built on the site of an old airport in the Amazon city of Belem.

The venue is hosting the annual U.N. climate conference where delegates from 195 governments are seeking to secure progress on halting the rise in global temperatures that threatens delicate and essential ecosystems including the Amazon rainforest.

The protesters are demanding that the Brazilian government halt devel

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