Thousands marched in the Brazilian city of Belem on Saturday, as the UN's COP30 climate conference marks its halfway point. Organizers dubbed the event the "Great People's March." The mass mobilization comes after two Indigenous-led protests that disrupted the climate conference earlier in the week. On Saturday, demonstrators marched 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) through the city. Environmental activists were joined by Indigenous people holding banners, flags, chanting slogans, and blasting music from speakers.
Thousands of climate activists marched through Manhattan streets this weekend as part of a coordinated global wave of protests demanding urgent environmental change. The demonstration took place on the eve of Climate Week NYC, the world's largest climate event, which runs September 21-28 across all five boroughs of New York City. The timing of these protests underscores growing tensions between grassroots climate activism and institutional climate discussions...Activists are demanding more aggressive action from those with the greatest economic and political power.