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November 13, 2025

Climate Activists Launch People's Summit Flotilla at COP30 U.N. Climate Talks in Brazil
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On Wednesday thousands of climate activists in Belém, Brazil launched a
People's Summit Flotilla to demand urgent action at the COP30 U.N.
climate talks. This is Carolina Pasquali, director of Greenpeace Brazil,
which organized the flotilla of about 200 vessels.

Carolina Pasquali: "We are actually bringing climate negotiators and
climate leaders to the heart of the forest to experience firsthand what
it is to live here, remembering that the Amazon is at tipping point and
that the population here are suffering. We are suffering from droughts.
We are suffering from climate change, from fires. This forest is a
rainforest that should not burn. It doesn't burn naturally. It only
burns because there is a human ignition and because the forest is
drier."



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