Amazon city of Belem

set to host COP 30 in 2025

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday announced that the city of Belem, which is

located on the border of Amazon, will be hosting the COP30 round of global climate talks in 2025.

The second most populous city in Brazil's Amazon after Manaus, Belem, has earlier hosted games of the

2014 World Cup.

"I am convinced that it will be a great event... the world will love the people of the state of Para" of

which Belem is the capital, stated the president in a video shared on social media.

Lula had earlier pledged to make efforts to bring the UN climate talks to a city in the largest rainforest

in the world.

In the mean time, Brazil's International concerns Clergyman Mauro Vieira expressed that the business

of Brazil to have COP30 was supported by the UN on May 18 after the solicitation was presented by

Lula during last year's COP27 meeting held in Egypt.

In a similar video, the Legislative head of Para Helder Barbalho said that it is a "extraordinary honor for

the entire country" to have the occasion and added that it "builds the obligation" of the country's

environment plan, with respect to the climate and the freedoms of native individuals, as revealed by CNN.

In 2019, Brazil was picked as the host for the COP meeting, be that as it may, the nation pulled out its

proposition soon after Lula's extreme right ancestor Jair Bolsonaro got chosen and came to control.

Bolsonaro has been known as an environmental change doubter and countenances the allegation of

destroying ecological securities when he was in power.