Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over in Brazil to make way for a new four-lane highway ahead of an upcoming climate summit.Belém, which is set to host the 30th UN Climate Change Conference with the Conference of the Parties (COP30),

A new road is being built by cutting down thousands of protected Amazon rainforest acres for the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil.

A highway cutting through the Amazon rainforest for COP30 in Brazil has sparked criticism. Thousands of acres of forest have been cleared. While officials call it sustainable, conservationists highlight the hypocrisy of destroying nature to host a climate summit.

This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past two COPs (UN Conference of the

As reported by the BBC, the state government of Pará cleared out eight miles of Amazon rainforest to build the highway. The BBC’s article has pictures of the clear-cut forest floor where logs have been piled up along a stretch of road that will soon hold concrete and passing cars.

Ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, developers are carving a four-lane highway through protected tracts of the

Four-lane route will cut through tens of thousands of acres of protected rainforest You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. The next instalment in a series of United Nations climate change conferences will be COP30,

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The Brazilian government has cleared protected Amazon rainforest to build a highway for the COP30 climate summit.