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.
The state government touts the highway’s “sustainable” credentials, but some locals and conservationists are outraged at the environmental impact.
This is like all those people taking private jets to climate summits. It’s just absurd.
A lot more politicians get assassinated in Brazil than the United States, right? I strongly feel that there’s hope here.
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That sounds about right for a modern COP summit. The last two were in Azerbaijan and the UAE and probably had more oil industry lobbyists attend than politicians and diplomats.
They might as well not even have them while countries are still digging carbon out of the ground and burning it. That’s the only thing that matters. It doesn’t matter how much renewable energy and nuclear capacity we add if we just piss it away on data centers (or whatever) instead of decommissioning CO2 emitting power plants.
