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El Duvelle

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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.

The road under construction
www.bbc.comAmazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summitThe infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
#Rainforest#COP30#BBCNews
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James Fine Art (.ie)

@elduvelle I live in Brazil, this is a BBC "twist" on ingoing infrastructure. Many folks will arrive by river, in cruise ships.

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El Duvelle

@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

@elduvelle @jamesfineart

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!" 🤬

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El Duvelle

@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

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Frank

@elduvelle @jamesfineart

Yeah, COP is kind of self destructing in recent past.

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James Fine Art (.ie)

@elduvelle @footils this road will be built. COP is a separate issue. I am far more concerned about proposed oil drilling in the Amazon region(currently prohibited). Why don't BBC report on oil companies? Oh wait, BP, North Sea, Saudi allies, etc. Silly me, the "poor countries are responsible for their plight" narrative.

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