‘The haste feels contagious … I fear it’: a Xipai journalist on attending Cop30

An Indigenous journalist’s experience of entering the belly of Cop where time does not flourish, it is consumedI feel as if I’ve been swallowed. And in the creature’s stomach, I walk with the sensation of being drowned. My nose hurts, with the same pain we feel when we are struggling to breathe. That’s my perception of the blue zone of Cop30, the official area for the negotiations. The architecture makes me think of the stomach of an animal.My eyes hurt, seeing so many pe