The city of Belém, in the Brazilian Amazon, will host the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30), scheduled for 2025, the Brazilian government announced yesterday, Friday.
The country’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said in a video posted on the government’s social networks that this is “extraordinary news” for the northern state of Pará (of which Belém is the capital), for the city and the entire country.
“I participated in the COP in Egypt, Paris, and Copenhagen, and people only talked about the Amazon. And I said: ‘Why, then, not hold the COP in an Amazonian state so that you can get to know what the Amazon is,'” Lula explained in the video, where he appears accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira, and the governor of Pará, Helder Barbalho.
According to Vieira, this will be the first time that “a meeting of this magnitude on climate change will be held in Brazil and the city of Belém”.
The UN Climate Conference analyzes climate change and seeks alternatives to improve environmental conditions, especially regarding reducing greenhouse gases.
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