In the early afternoon of this Thursday (20), a fire disrupted the official negotiation area between countries in COP30the Blue Zone. The location needed to be completely evacuatedwhich caused a rush in the restricted access area of the environment.
The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, was also there when everything happened. According to the investigation of the CNNshe performed a meeting with Indonesian leaderssigning memos, when informed about the need for evacuation.
Yet no official information about how the fire started. Speaking to journalists while also leaving the site, the Minister of Tourism, Celso Sabino, said that no one was injured so far.
According to Sabino, the COP organization about the resumption of negotiations, when they will know if they will be able to return to the Blue Zone this Thursday, or only on Friday (21), the last day of the conference.
“It is standard procedure to evacuate an area, we are here with thousands of people,” said the Minister of Tourism.
