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What: Press conference in the COP30 Blue Zone featuring diverse Amazonian Indigenous leaders on the need to make the Amazon rainforest and watershed a No-Go Zone for extractive industries like oil, gas, mining, and agribusiness that are drivers of deforestation and catalysts for climate change.
Who:
- Leila Salazar-López, Executive Director, Amazon Watch
- Olivia Bisa, President, Territorial Autonomous Government of the Chapra Nation (Peruvian Amazon)
- Patricia Gualinga, Member-elect of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (Kichwa- Sarayaku, Ecuadorian Amazon)
- Brazilian Indigenous leader from “The Answer Caravan”
- Leaders from across the Amazon will be available for interviews after the press conference
When: Friday, November 14 at 3:30 – 4:00 pm (Belém time zone)
Where: COP30 Blue Zone – Press Conference Room 2, Area D
The conference will also be streamed live here.
Interviews and Multimedia: For interviews or additional information, please contact Ricardo Pérez at [email protected] or +51 943992012.
Background: As COP30 enters its second week of negotiations, Amazonian Indigenous leaders arrive in Belém after leading powerful and courageous actions such as the Yaku Mama Flotilla and the “The Answer” Caravan, and after engaging in multiple formal and informal dialogues within the COP spaces. They will share their perspectives on how extractive projects – driven by Amazonian governments, corporations, and consumer countries – continue to advance despite global commitments to limit warming to 1.5°C.
The Amazon is approaching an irreversible tipping point. While Amazonian nations have their political representatives speaking about protecting the rainforest on the world stage, numerous projects with enormous destructive potential continue to move forward – oil drilling in sensitive ecosystems, new mining concessions, and agribusiness expansion turning forests into fields. Indigenous peoples, the most effective guardians of the forest, are calling for their territories to be declared No-Go Zones for extractive industries to truly safeguard the Amazon and the planet.
