Deforestation for the climate conference? Brazil is building a motorway in the Amazon before COP 30.

In a few months, the city of Belém in Brazil will become the centre of international climate policy. However, where the protection of the rainforest is to be discussed, a motorway is currently being built in the middle of nature.

The magazine The Economist, one of the most influential publications in the United Kingdom, published this Wednesday, 10, a critical report about the choice of Belém to host the United Nations Climate Conference (COP30), scheduled for 2025. The title of the article already anticipates the tone of the analysis: get ready for a “chaotic COP”. Right in the first lines, the magazine describes Belém as a city with limited infrastructure. The text men…

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Capital of Pará is described in the article as a “hollowed-out city in the Brazilian Amazon, hot, dotted with open-air sewer”