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Montevideo, March 31st 2025 - 22:27 UTC

Tag: COP30

  • Thursday, March 13th 2025 - 10:35 UTC

    Across-Amazon highway to be built for COP30 sparks controversy

    Sloths will have their way back into the wild hindered by the new structure

    As Brazilian authorities prepare for the upcoming COP30 climate summit in November in Belém, constructing a new four-lane highway - Avenida Liberdade - through the protected Amazon rainforest has sparked controversy. The structure seeks to ease traffic for the expected 50,000 attendees, including world leaders. But it has led to significant deforestation, fragmenting ecosystems and disrupting wildlife movement along its 13 kilometers.

  • Saturday, May 27th 2023 - 08:48 UTC

    Belém to host UN Climate Summit 2025 (COP30)

    “I am sure that Governor Helder Barbalho and the people of Pará are prepared to promote the best COP in history,” Lula said when making the announcement

    The Brazilian city of Belém, the capital of the state of Pará, will host UN Climate Summit 2025 (COP30), President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Friday in a video published on social networks. “It will be an honor for Brazil to receive representatives from all over the world in a state of our Amazon,” said Lula.

  • Thursday, November 17th 2022 - 10:18 UTC

    Lula wants to host COP30, announces Ministry of Indigenous People

    “Brazil is back. It cannot be isolated as it was in the last four years. Brazil is too big,” Lula insisted

    Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced during his appearance at the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, that he will create a ministry of native peoples so that indigenous people “are not treated as bandits.”