From Belain, Brazil, the gateway to the Amazon, we're at COP 30, the UN Climate Summit.

This is Democracy Now.

We are here claiming our rights,

defending our forests,

defending our animals,

where we have survived all these years.

We need to be recognized by the world

as great guardians of the forest.

As indigenous protesters march outside the UN climate summit, COP 30,

we'll look at Brazil's contradictory climate policies.

The Lula government has reduced deforestation in the Amazon while also approving oil drilling.

Then we speak to a leading indigenous activist from Ecuador on the role of indigenous peoples here at the climate talks,

plus Kumi Naidu, the longtime South African activist, former head of Greenpeace, as well as Amnesty International,

now the president of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.

Let's be very clear and say it over and over again that the primary cause of the climate emergency is our addiction

and our dependency on fossil fuels.

All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.

The War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

The United Nations Security Councils approved a U.S.backed plan for a so-called international stabilization

force in Gaza.

On Monday, 13 council members voted in favor of the resolution, while China and Russia abstained,

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