Climate protesters demand to be heard as they march on COP30 with costumes and drums

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Climate activists protest with coffins that read coal, oil and gas during the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

BELEM – Some wore black dresses to signify a funeral for fossil fuels. Hundreds wore red shirts, symbolizing the blood of colleagues fighting to protect the environment. And others chanted, waved huge flags or held up signs Saturday in what's traditionally the biggest day of protest at the halfway point of annual United Nations climate talks.

Organizers with booming sound systems on trucks with raised platforms directed protesters from a wide range of environmental and social movements. Marisol Garcia, a Kichwa woman from Peru marching at the head of o