BELEM, Brazil — Brazil set out to host this year's United Nations climate talks with a promise to spotlight Indigenous peoples whose way of life depends on the Amazon rainforest. Those groups are seizing the chance.

For the second time this week, Indigenous protesters on Friday disrupted entry to the main venue for COP30 to demand progress on climate change and other issues. Though their march was peaceful — it required conference participants to detour through a side door, leading to long lines to get in for the day's events — one protester likened it to “a scream” over rights violated and decisions made without consulting the Indigenous.

“I wish that warmth would melt the coldness of people," Cris Julião Pankararu, of the Pankararu people in the Caatinga biome of Brazil, said.

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