Tens of thousands of people thronged the streets of the Amazonian city hosting COP30 talks on Saturday, dancing to thumping speakers in the first large-scale protest at a UN climate summit in years.

Under a searing sun, Indigenous people and activists sang, chanted and whirled to blasting music as they pushed along a giant beach ball of Earth and held a flag of Brazil emblazoned with the words “Protected Amazon.”

Others held a mock funeral procession for fossil fuels, dressed in black and pretending to be grieving widows as they carried three coffins marked with the words “coal,” “oil” and “gas.”

“We are here to try to apply pressure so that countries fulfill their promises and we don’t accept a regression,” Txai Surui, a prominent 28-year-old Indigenous leader, told AFP.

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