Lula Will Have Hard Time Hosting UN Climate Delegates in Amazon

Brazil keen to put beauty, problems of rainforest on display
Northern state facing logistical challenges ahead of COP30

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva hosted the Amazon Summit in Belém, Brazil last year. Now, he’s preparing for COP30.Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg

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By Barbara Nascimento, Simone Iglesias, and Gerson Freitas Jr.

May 29, 2024 at 9:00 AM UTC

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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wants to show off the Amazon’s reality when Brazil hosts a United Nations climate summit next year. For attendees, that means complicated journeys and precarious conditions.

The northern state of Pará, which is home to about a quarter of the world’s largest rainforest, needs to more than triple its hotel capacity and overcome both transport and sanitation bottlenecks before it can welcome COP30 delegates in late 2025.