View image in fullscreen Cop30 president André Corrêa do Lago holds a Munduruku Indigenous child while members of the Ipereg Ayu movement block the entrance to Cop30 in Belém, on 14 November. Photograph: Pablo Porciúncula/AFP/Getty Images

It was a tense moment. A group of about 50 people from the Munduruku, an Indigenous people in the Amazon basin, had blocked the entrance to the Cop30 venue in protest, causing long lines of delegates to snake down access roads, simmering in the morning heat.

The Munduruku, unhappy about the ruination of their forest and rivers by industry and their lack of voice at Cop30, demanded to speak to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president. Instead, they got André Corrêa do Lago, the president of the talks.

With a scrum of onlookers and reporters

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