Brazil’s new Avenida Liberdade highway is being built for the COP30 Climate Summit in November.
Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon, which is home to 60 percent of the world’s largest forest and 20 percent of the Earth’s oxygen. Mario Tama/Getty Images
PERRY CHIARAMONTE
A massive swath of protected rainforest in Brazil has been slashed to build a new four-lane highway, paving a direct path into the city hosting an upcoming summit on climate change.
Dubbed the Avenida Liberdade highway, the new stretch of highway cuts across tens of thousands of acres of rainforest located on the outskirts of Belem, where over 50,000 people, including world leaders, are anticipated to gather in November for the COP30 Climate Summit, according to a report from BBC News.
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