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"Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit"
bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191r…
Edit: some answers point that COP is probably not the only reason for this highway project to go through. Regardless of that, I would say COP should use its power to block the highway ASAP, instead of (apparently) encouraging it.
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.Ione Wells (BBC News)
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Melissa BearTrix
in reply to El Duvelle • • •Wonderful news ... I shall get my barrel of dirty crude oil burning in celebration ... Yay to COP
Cunts
Hugz & xXx
Frank
in reply to El Duvelle • • •This road is NOT "being built for the COP30 climate summit"! This is #bullshit framing.
Belem is a city with over a million inhabitants, over 2 million in the area. It doesn't need a new road for 50,000 COP visitors who will leave again afterwards.
This road is built for the same reasons all highways are build: to fuel a car dependent lifestyle and economy. It has nothing to do with a COP.
El Duvelle
in reply to Frank • • •@footils They say the idea of this motorway has been proposed and rejected many times before for environmental reasons.
Now because of the COP30 they decided to proceed with it:
It does look like COP30 is, if not the only reason, a main justification for it..
Frank
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in reply to James Fine Art (.ie) • • •@jamesfineart thanks for your input!
@footils has their doubts too:
social.cologne/@footils/114148…
From what they say in the article it looks like COP30 is used as a pretext to actually move forward with this highway project though? So I'm sure lots of other actors wanted it to go forward but if COP didn't want it to happen they could have stopped it?
Frank
2025-03-12 08:28:11
Frank
in reply to El Duvelle • • •I doubt that COP or UN have any influence on local projects like this.
There is nasty narrative lurking in the background. The road building could be used by climate denialists to delegitimize climate scientists as in: "See, these climate people are building highways in the jungle for their meeting. Bloody hypocrites!" 🤬
El Duvelle
in reply to Frank • • •@footils @jamesfineart
Hmm, they could decide to move to another location unless the highway project is stopped. They could also decide to do it all online to prevent travel emissions from all around the world.
I am also not convinced that the COPs are doing anything to prevent climate change.. And seeing it hosted in places like the UAE which has poor human right standards and apparently used the meeting to make oil and gas deals is... not great
Frank
in reply to El Duvelle • • •@jamesfineart
Yeah, COP is kind of self destructing in recent past.
Number6
in reply to El Duvelle • • •Whether or not the road is real, thousands of people flying to a far-off country is real and wasteful. And so far accomplishes nothing.
What they do at COP is to agree that they're all going to pollute. Really. Each country says how much it is going to pollute.
Only a handful of countries, mostly non-industrial, show any intention of hitting climate targets.
The low-hanging fruit is transportation. Yet here they are encouraging high-CO2 transport to vacation destinations.