Ecowatch: Making room for the COP30 climate talks

A drone image showing the Amazon rainforest and the city of Belem in the background at Ilha (island) do Combu. Brazil’s Environment and Climate Change Minister, Marina Silva, has said ‘It will be the first time that the Amazon, an essential biome for combating climate change, will host a COP’. — Reuters

HOTEL rooms in the port city of Belem, Brazil, should have been almost fully booked by now.

Picked to host the annual United Nations’ Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP30) in November 2025, this city sits some 100km upriver from where the mighty Amazon River pours into the Atlantic Ocean.