Colour and song return to climate talks in Brazil

THE gypsies invariably brought colour and magic to the grey city of Macondo in One Hundred Years of Solitude. Belém is no Macondo living in isolation and innocence, neither are the indigenous people and climate activists who joined the "Great People's March"on Saturday at halfway point of the UN climate summit the wandering Roma.

- SOUMYA SARKAR @Belém (Brazil)

A demonstration during the 'Great People's March' in Belém, Brazil on Saturday

(SOUMYA SARKAR)

But the tens of thousands marching through the streets of the Amazonian host city demanding climate action did splash a vibrant palette of colours and added song and dance to the otherwise grey proceedings at the conference venue of Parque da Cidade.