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Cop day 5 live: Indigenous activists blockade the summit centre as climate conference continues

The Guardian · last updated

Good morning Matthew Taylor here and I will be hosting the liveblog for the next few hours.

We are getting reports from Belem that dozens of Indigenous protesters are blocking the front of the COP30 summit venue demanding that the Brazilian government halt all development projects in the Amazon, including mining, logging, oil drilling and the building of a new railway for transporting mining and agricultural products..

The protesters staged a sit-in creating long queues and forcing delegates to use a side entrance to resume their negotiations on tackling climate change.

Colleagues are on their way to the protests and we will should have more information soon.

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