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Amazon rainforest cut down for highway to COP climate summit

Original: Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit (2025)

A stretch of Amazon rainforest is being cleared to build a highway intended to ease access for the COP climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The irony of felling forest to host a conference on protecting forests has drawn widespread criticism, with commentators calling it a symbol of the gap between climate pledges and government actions on the ground.

Why now: The contradiction of destroying rainforest to build infrastructure for a climate summit is sparking outrage and debate

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