The Brazilian state hosting a United Nations climate summit this year has denied any connection between a new road cutting through a protected area of Brazilian rainforest and the COP30 summit that will gather world leaders in November.

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

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,

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.

Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host COP30.

World leaders will be among the 50,000 people descending on the Brazilian city of Belem this November for the COP30 climate summit. Brazil is hailing it as historic—"a COP in the Amazon, not a COP about the Amazon.

Brazilian officials said the highway is sustainable with wildlife crossings for animals to use and solar lighting.

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

The climate conference doesn't begin until November but controversy is already swirling, according to the BBC.