An Indigenous group attended the opening ceremony of the People’s Summit offsite from the COP30 climate conference, while other people walked along the river at sunset in Belem, Brazil. Jose Rivera prayed before an image of the Virgin Mary painted on a tree in Armero,

The conference is being led by COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago, Brazil’s vice minister for climate, energy and environment at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Among those scheduled to attend are government leaders and ministers, diplomats, U.N. representatives, scientists, business leaders and non-governmental organizations across the globe.

A coalition of climate groups said they have identified more than 1,600 lobbyists for fossil fuels at the COP30 climate talks.

The world's biggest meat company, a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, is leading food-company efforts in global climate talks.

Roughly half of Brazil’s grasslands show some degree of degradation, according to University of São Paulo researcher Carlos Eduardo Cerri, who studies carbon emissions in agriculture. Degradation occurs when cattle overgraze, stripping away vegetation that protects the soil and allows it to store carbon.

A Canadian anti-whaling activist who has dodged arrest in Japan for more than a decade vowed at COP30 in Brazil to continue fighting for marine protection – taking aim in particular at deep-sea mining and Norway’s krill industry.

At COP30 in Belem, countries have rallied behind proposals for a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels.

The president of Brazil, hosting this year's global climate summit in Belém, called on leaders to ignore those who prefer a head-in-the-sand approach to climate change.