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
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.
Brazil Cuts Acres of Amazon Trees to Build Road for Climate Summit
A new road is being built by cutting down thousands of protected Amazon rainforest acres for the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
‘Everything was destroyed’—Large patch of Amazon rainforest cleared out for highway ahead of UN’s COP climate summit
A highway cutting through the Amazon rainforest for COP30 in Brazil has sparked criticism. Thousands of acres of forest have been cleared. While officials call it sustainable, conservationists highlight the hypocrisy of destroying nature to host a climate summit.
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 Protected Rainforest to Build New Highway for COP30
The Amazon rainforest is one of the most important ecosystems on Earth. It absorbs carbon dioxide, supports countless species, and helps regulate the planet’s climate. But now, a large section of it is being cleared to make way for a new highway,
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.
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.
Brazil is building a highway in the rainforest to service a climate conference
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,
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.
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