Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit
Belém ([beˈlẽj], Portuguese for Bethlehem) is a northern Brazilian city that lies about 100 km upriver from the Atlantic Ocean. It is the gateway to the Amazon River with a population of a little over two million and is known as the city of the Metropolis of the Brazilian Amazon region. This is where the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference, the 30th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 30) will convene in November this year. The Brazilian president expects the COP30 in Belém to be a historic summit because it is "a COP in the Amazon, not a COP about the Amazon" as the conference will focus on the needs of the Amazon and present what the Brazilian government has done to protect it. In order to host over 50,000 people at the climate summit, a new four-lane highway is being constructed through the protected Amazon rainforest. Also, the airport capacity is being expanded from seven million to 14 million even though it has been used by fewer than four million passengers a year. The COP summit is surely going to have impacts on the Amazon’s climate, biodiversity, and the lives of inhabitants.
Read the article and learn about how the COP 30 climate summit is being prepared in Brazil.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o
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