“I have already participated in the COP in France, in Egypt, and everyone was constantly talking about the Amazon. So I said to myself: why not hold the conference here, so that everyone knows about the Amazon? “, justified Lula.
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A summit for the climate in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced on Friday May 26 that the UN has chosen the city of Belem, in the Amazon, to host the COP30 climate conference in 2025. “It will be an honor for Brazil to receive representatives from all over the world in our Amazon”Lula wrote on social media.
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“I have already participated in the COP in France, in Egypt, and everyone was constantly talking about the Amazon. So I said to myself: why not hold the conference here, so that everyone knows about the Amazon? “, he added, in a video posted with the message. Capital of the state of Para (north), Belem is a city of about 1.5 million inhabitants located near the mouth of the Amazon.
A way to turn the Bolsonaro page
Alongside Lula in the video, Brazil’s Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira clarified that the UN’s choice dated back to May 18. The country, which is home to more than 60% of the Amazon forest, was supposed to host the COP in 2019, but the Brazilian authorities had given up organizing it after the election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022), a climato – notorious skeptic.
The left-leaning president, who began his third term as head of Brazil in January, has vowed to make environmental conservation a priority and end illegal deforestation in the Amazon by 2030. The rainforest is an important carbon sink – it absorbs some of the greenhouse gases generated by our consumption of coal, oil and gas – but fragile.
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