COP30: Thousands march outside COP30 summit in call for action

This is the first time since 2021 that protesters have been allowed to demonstrate outside the UN talks.

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Chanting and singing "free the Amazon", demonstrators in host city Belém have been carrying three giant coffins reading Oil, Coal and Gas flanked by two grim reapers.

Indigenous groups displayed signs reading "the answer is us" as an inflatable elephant and anaconda weaved through the crowd under the hot sun.

It is the first time since 2021 that protesters have been allowed to demonstrate outside the UN climate talks. The last three took place in countries that do not permit public protest.

"We are holding a funeral for fossil fuels," Tuga Cíntia told the BBC. She is from the theatre group Hydra Dance from the Federal University of Pará.