Brazil is confronted with accusations of hypocrisy after reducing large parts of the Amazon Register to build a road for the upcoming COP30 Climate Summit, according to De Telegraaf. The highway, designed for tens of thousands of delegates for the UN climate conference, has expressed concern about the dedication of the country to environmental protection.
According to De Telegraaf, The Amazone rain forest is credited for absorbing huge amounts of carbon and hosting extraordinary biodiversity. The local population has said that the new road destroys their means of existence, while nature conservationists claimed that it would be a danger to wildlife that tried to move through the forest.
According to The BBCThe Four Lane Highway wants to illuminate traffic to the city, which will organize more than 50,000 people – including world leaders – at the November conference. The state government praises the “sustainable” references of the highway, but some locals and conservationists are furious about the impact of the environment. The Amazon plays a crucial role in absorbing carbon for the world and delivering biodiversity, and many say that this deforestation is contradicted by the purpose of a climate summit.
Claudio Verequete lives approximately 200 meters where the road will be. He made income from the harvesting of acibbering trees that once occupied space. “Everything was destroyed,” he BBC told. “Our harvest has already been shortened. We no longer have that income to maintain our family.”
In the meantime, the Brazilian president and Minister of the Environment says that this will be a historic summit because it is “an agent in the Amazon, not an agent about the Amazon”.
The president says that the meeting offers the opportunity to concentrate on the needs of the Amazon, to show the forest to the world and present what the federal government has done to protect it.
