The Brazilian state hosting a United Nations climate summit this year has denied any connection between a new road cutting through a protected area of Brazilian rainforest and the COP30 summit that will gather world leaders in November.

A new road is being built by cutting down thousands of protected Amazon rainforest acres for the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil.

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A highway cutting through the Amazon rainforest for COP30 in Brazil has sparked criticism. Thousands of acres of forest have been cleared. While officials call it sustainable, conservationists highlight the hypocrisy of destroying nature to host a climate summit.

The climate conference doesn't begin until November but controversy is already swirling, according to the BBC.

A BBC report found on Wednesday that tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazonian rainforest are being cleared ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

Commentator Adam Brooks has hit out at the "climate hypocrisy" in Brazil as workers cut down thousands of Amazon rainforest trees to create a new highway for the Cop30 climate summit in November. The highway aims to ease traffic to Belém,

Climate Summit in Brazil's Amazon rainforest is facing intense criticism for the way it is handling the event. Thousands of trees at the heart of the "Earth's lungs" have been chopped down to make way for attendees,