The climate conference doesn't begin until November but controversy is already swirling, according to the BBC.

This year's controversial COP 30 climate change summit hasn't even started, but it's already causing environmental damage.

A vast portion of the Amazon rainforest has been cleared to build a road for the COP30 climate summit. The local community is distraught: "Everything was destroyed. Our harvest has already been cut down.

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people - including world leaders - at the conference in November.

Ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, developers are carving a four-lane highway through protected tracts of the

The Amazon rainforest is one of the most important ecosystems on Earth. It absorbs carbon dioxide, supports countless species, and helps regulate the planet’s climate. But now, a large section of it is being cleared to make way for a new highway,

A BBC report found on Wednesday that tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazonian rainforest are being cleared ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

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Large swathes of Amazon rainforest have been cut down to make way for a road that will bring tens of thousands of delegates to this year’s UN climate conference, Cop30, in Brazil.