Lula announces that the UN has chosen Brazil as the venue for COP30 in 2025

The Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvaannounced this Friday that the United Nations have confirmed to Brazil as headquarters of the COP30 Climate Summitwhich will be held in 2025.

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He also confirmed that the COP30 will be held in the city of Belén, near the mouth of the Amazon River in the Atlantic Ocean, and considered that the confirmation received from United Nations is “extraordinary news” for the country.

I have already participated in one COP in Egyptin another in Copenhagen and in all the people speak of the amazonHe only talks about the amazon”but without ever having been in that region, said the president in a video released on his social networks in which he reported on the decision of the UN.

“He always said, and why not make one COP in the amazonso that everyone knows the amazon and see what are the rivers of the Amazon, the jungles of the Amazon and the fauna of the amazon”added Lulaaccompanied in the video by the chancellor Mauro Vieira and the governor of the Amazon state of For, Helder Barbalho.

Brazil had been chosen by the United Nations as headquarters of the COP25 of 2019but the ultra-right Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022), who assumed the Presidency of the country that same year, declined to take charge of the organization of the event, which was finally held in Spain.

During the four years he was in power, Bolsonaro promoted aggressive development policies in the amazon and dismantled all environmental enforcement agencies, which Lula has started to strengthen again since he took office last January.

Likewise, it has resumed the protection programs of the amazon and combat the climate crisis that existed before Bolsonaro came to power and has reinforced the Ministry of the Environmentjust as it has created a portfolio dedicated exclusively to indigenous peoples.

Source: Elcomercio

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