An Indigenous group blocked an entrance to the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit on Friday in Belem, Brazil. Fernando Llano/AP Belem, Brazil AP —

About 100 Indigenous protesters blocked the main entrance to the United Nations climate conference on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon for 90 minutes on Friday in a peaceful standoff that ended after a lengthy discussion with the climate talks president, who cradled a protester’s baby during the talks.

Brazilian military personnel kept demonstrators from entering the site hosting COP30 meetings in Belem , but there appeared to be no physical altercations. The protesters, most in traditional Indigenous garb, formed a human chain around the entrance to block people from entering as the day’s meetings began. Other groups of activists formed

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