Rainforest Cut Down To Build New Highway To Climate Change Summit, Because Irony Is Dead
This year's controversial COP 30 climate change summit hasn't even started, but it's already causing environmental damage.
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
Amazon Rainforest Cleared for Climate Conference
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 Parties) that were held by, and dictated by, Middle Eastern fossil fuel countries,
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
Brazil Clears 8 Miles of Amazon Rainforest to Make Space for UN Climate Conference
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.
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 Chopped Down to Build Highway for Conference on Climate Change
The Brazilian government has cleared protected Amazon rainforest to build a highway for the COP30 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.
Rainforest Cleared for Highway Ahead of Climate Summit
As Brazil prepares to host the COP30 climate summit, a stretch of rainforest is being cleared for a highway to welcome world leaders.
Brazil Clears Protected Rainforest to Build New Highway for COP30
Amazon Rainforest Destroyed to Build Road for Climate Summit
Brazil has $167 billion plan to make COP30 talks rare climate success
Singapore has expressed an interest to be an anchor contributor to the fund, Brazil says. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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