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

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.

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.

The Brazilian government has cleared protected Amazon rainforest to build a highway for the COP30 climate summit.

Tens of thousands of acres of the Amazon rainforest are being cut down to make room for a four-lane highway ahead of the COP30 climate summit

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

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.