Amazon deforestation sparks outrage

Amazon deforestation sparks outrage ahead of COP30 summit
A vast portion of the Amazon rainforest has been cleared to build a road for the COP30 climate summit. The local community is distraught: "Everything was destroyed. Our harvest has already been cut down.
Amazon's green legacy threatened by COP30 summit highway
A vast portion of the Amazon rainforest has been cleared to build a road for the COP30 climate summit. The local community is distraught: "Everything was destroyed. Our harvest has already been cut down.
Amazon Rainforest Razed To Build Highway For UN Climate Summit
Ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, developers are carving a four-lane highway through protected tracts of the
How Brazil is chopping down Amazon rainforest to build highway for COP30 Summit
Brazil’s Belém is set to play host to around 50,000 people during the COP30, the UN’s annual climate summit, in November. Ironically, it turns out that the government is cutting down thousands of acre
‘Everything was destroyed’—Large patch of Amazon rainforest cleared out for highway ahead of UN’s COP climate summit
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.
Thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest cleared for climate summit highway in Brazil
A BBC report found on Wednesday that tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazonian rainforest are being cleared ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.
Stretch of Amazon cleared to build highway for COP30, sparks controversy
The Amazon is vital for absorbing carbon and maintaining biodiversity. Many argue that clearing land for a road goes against the purpose of a climate summit.
Brazil Cuts Acres of Amazon Trees to Build Road for Climate Summit
A new road is being built by cutting down thousands of protected Amazon rainforest acres for the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit
A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people - including world leaders - at the conference in November.
Amazon Rainforest Cleared for COP30 Highway in Brazil: Is It Counterproductive to Climate Action?
As Brazil clears the Amazon for a highway to host COP30, questions arise over whether such a move undermines the summit’s goal of tackling climate change
Stretch of Amazon rainforest destroyed to build four-lane highway for upcoming COP30 climate summit: ‘This is a loss’
Somebody get Greta on the horn! Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil.
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Across-Amazon highway to be built for COP30 sparks controversy
As Brazilian authorities prepare for the upcoming COP30 climate summit in November in Belém, constructing a new four-lane ...
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Brazil decides leaders will speak before COP30, easing logistics crunch
Brazilian authorities say the move will reduce pressure on hotels and enable climate negotiators to reflect on speeches by ...
Brazilian study points the way to developing the Amazon bioeconomy
COP30—the 30th edition of the Conference of the Parties, an annual meeting organized by the United Nations (UN) to define and ...