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Environmental hypocrites are cutting down the rain forest, flying on airplanes, and destroying the livelihoods of indigenous people.
The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
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Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit
March 12, 2025
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.
Diggers and machines carve through the forest floor, paving over wetland to surface the road which will cut through a protected area.
Claudio Verequete lives about 200m from where the road will be. He used to make an income from harvesting açaí berries from trees that once occupied the space.
“Everything was destroyed,” he says, gesturing at the clearing.
“Our harvest has already been cut down. We no longer have that income to support our family.”
He says he has received no compensation from the state government and is currently relying on savings.
“We were born and raised here in the community. Where are we going to go?”
Scrutiny is growing over whether flying thousands of them across the world, and the infrastructure required to host them, is undermining the cause.
