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"Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o
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.
@elduvelle
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.
@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:
"Adler Silveira, the state government's infrastructure secretary, listed this highway as one of 30 projects happening in the city to "prepare" and "modernise" it, so "we can have a legacy for the population and, more importantly, serve people for COP30 in the best possible way"."
It does look like COP30 is, if not the only reason, a main justification for it..
@elduvelle
"They say" it's because of the COP30, but should we or the BBC believe "their" cover-up? The COP30 lasts about 10 days. 50,000 visitors may sound big but is nothing unusual. Many trade fairs attract visitor counts like this or bigger even in Brazil.