The main demand was the need to guarantee property rights over their lands through the respective titling processes, according to a statement released by the UN.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, met on Wednesday with Brazilian indigenous leaders to hear the demands that led them to try to invade the COP30 headquarters taking place in the Amazonian city of Belém.
The main demand was the need to guarantee property rights over their land through the respective titling processes, according to a statement released by the UN.
Dinamam Tuxá, executive coordinator of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), the main organization of the country’s original peoples, stated that protecting lands is a “global responsibility”.
“The world must truly recognize our care for indigenous territories as a solution to the climate crisis. Our lands and our traditional ways of managing them must be recognized,” declared Tuxá, according to the statement.
The president of the International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change (IIPFCC), Sinéia do Vale, stated that the demarcation of ten indigenous territories is “possibly” the best news of COP30.
Indigenous people have protested at COP30 against the slow process of protecting their lands and also against government projects, such as oil prospecting in the Amazon and the construction of a railway line near indigenous lands, intended for soy exports.
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Three days later, members of the Mundurukú ethnic group blocked the main entrance to COP30 for almost four hours, in protest against some Brazilian Government projects, such as the diversion of certain Amazon rivers to facilitate the transport of agricultural products produced in the interior of the country.
The blockade ended only after the president of the summit, diplomat André Corrêa do Lago, went to the location and started a dialogue.
At COP30, 35 countries and philanthropic organizations committed to contributing US$1.8 billion over the next five years to boost land titling for indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and local communities.
Additionally, 15 governments have committed to recognizing 160 million hectares of land.
