Nnimmo Bassey, a prominent figure in the decades-long environmental struggles in Africa's largest oil-producing country, will next month attend yet another UN climate summit, this time in Brazil.

"Unfortunately!" smiles the Nigerian 67-year-old, who harbours little hope for the outcomes of this "ritual" in which states participate "while knowing that nothing serious will come of it."

Bassey, a longtime environmentalist, will only attend meetings among environmental activists on the sidelines of the official COP30 talks.

"For us as activists, the COP provides spaces for solidarity, for meeting other people, sharing ideas, and organising in a different way," he told AFP in an interview in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos.

Yet he is hopeful that one day "the outside space may become th

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