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Brazil Set to Host COP30 with Climate Wins on Deforestation, Indigenous Reserves
Brazil highlights its success in halving Amazon deforestation to 4,200 sq km by 2024 while promoting Indigenous rights and global climate cooperation at COP30.
- On Monday, COP30 opens in Brasilia, hosted by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with about 50,000 attendees expected, as climate ministers meet ahead of the talks.
- After years of rising loss, Brazil moved to strengthen Indigenous rights and environmental bodies as Lula rebuilt agencies, reactivated the Amazon Fund, and pledged zero deforestation by 2030.
- Data show deforestation dropped to 4,200 square kilometers by 2024 after earlier highs, while fires in 2024 became a leading cause and the Tropical Forest Forever Fund aims for more than $100 billion.
- Rising hotel prices forced organisers to repurpose schools and cruise ships for lodging, prompting complaints from delegates from developing countries, while Prince William, representing Britain's King Charles, is expected to attend but US President Donald Trump is not.
- A looming showdown centers on late 2035 targets and urgent finance demands from vulnerable nations, while Lula told the United Nations General Assembly that `It will be the moment for world leaders to prove the seriousness of their commitment to the planet`.
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Brazil set to host COP30 with climate wins on deforestation, indigenous reserves
As Brazil prepares to host the UN COP30 climate summit in the Amazon next month, the country's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has clocked impressive climate wins on curbing deforestation, legalising indigenous land reserves and securing conservation funding.
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Brazil's climate wins ahead of COP30
Brazil's president has slashed deforestation in the Amazon and worked to better protect Indigenous people, giving him a generally positive environmental record as he prepares to host COP30 UN climate talks in a month.
The annual big climate event opens in less than a month, but until now, the international enthusiasm seems rather timid.
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