Brazil’s Amazon Region to Host UN Climate Summit in 2025

UN selects Amazonian city of Belem to host COP30, Lula says
Leftist leader has sought leading role in global climate talks

Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks at an Indigenous event in Belem, a city in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest region, during the 2022 presidential election.Photographer: Maira Erlich/Bloomberg

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By Simone Iglesias

May 26, 2023 at 7:01 PM UTC

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Belem, a city in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest region, will host the United Nations’ annual climate change summit in 2025, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced Friday.

The UN’s decision to bring COP30, as the summit is known, to Brazil is the latest boost to the leftist leader’s efforts to assert a global leadership role on environmental issues.