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A new four-lane highway, currently under construction to facilitate transportation for the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, is causing significant concern among environmentalists and locals.
The highway, designed to ease traffic for the expected 50,000 attendees, including world leaders, is cutting through tens of thousands of acres of the protected Amazon rainforest.
Despite the state government’s claims of the project’s “sustainable” credentials, the construction is drawing widespread criticism.
Conservationists and local communities argue that this deforestation is highly contradictory, given that the summit’s goal is to address climate change and protect the environment.
Once completed, the highway will have a significant environmental footprint, potentially impacting ecosystems that are crucial to global efforts to combat climate change.
The Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s most vital carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots, is already under immense pressure from human activity, and this highway project is seen as exacerbating the situation.
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