Cradle of the world’s environment, with around 30 million species of animals, the largest biome in the world is in Brazil. Next year, the Amazon will be the stage for important climate-related discussions.
COP30 will be held in November 2025, in Pará. The capital, Belém, is already undergoing a series of structural works and is preparing to receive delegations from around 195 countries next year.
The forecast is that important points to be discussed at the UN Climate Conference, which begins on November 11th in Azerbaijan, will remain open and will only be truly defined at COP30.
“COP30 takes place ten years after the Paris Agreement, a time when all countries will need to review their ambitions. The Belém COP has several strategic importance. First, it is taking place in the most important tropical forest in the world and attention will be focused on the issue of deforestation, land use, issues of indigenous peoples. This whole discussion is very important. But it is also important that at the COP in Belém, a year from now, we expand these countries’ ambitions. Brazil has a strategic role at the moment”, explains André Guimarães, executive director of IPAM, the Amazon Environmental Research Institute.
For Jean Ometto, senior researcher at INPE, “Brazil has a very large responsibility in the environmental agenda. We are a continental country, we have the largest tropical forest in the world, we have a huge, cultural diversity of biomes. So, Brazil can indeed be a very important actor in the transformation regarding sustainability.”
With 1,303,389 inhabitants, according to IBGE, Belém is undergoing important works, creating new vacancies in the hotel sector and new viaducts. Furthermore, work is accelerating at Parque da Cidade, the location chosen to host discussions on climate change and adaptation. The Park represents the largest urban intervention work being carried out in Pará.
“It is in Brazil’s total interest to resolve the climate issue, not only because we have the opportunities, but because we are vulnerable. (…) For the first time in the climate plan, we have seven mitigation sectors and 16 adaptation sectors. Adaptation plans that we have been building with all the ministries, in agriculture, in cities, transport, biodiversity, where Brazil needs to go after, mainly, States and municipalities, which we also have States and municipalities doing their work, of creating their adaptation plans because, unfortunately, the extreme climate event is already present and will continue to be present”, says Ana Toni, national secretary for climate change at the Ministry of the Environment.
