Lula announces Belém as COP30 host

The city of Belém will host the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30). The announcement was made this Friday (26) by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva through his profile on social networks. “Belém do Pará was the city chosen by the UN [Organização das Nações Unidas] to host the COP30, in 2025. It will be an honor for Brazil to receive representatives from all over the world in a state of our Amazon. I’m sure that Helder Barbalho [governador do Pará] and the people of Pará are prepared to promote the best COP in history.” Belém do Pará was the city chosen by the UN to host the COP 30, in 2025. It will be an honor for Brazil to receive representatives from all over the world in a state of our Amazon. I’m sure @helderbarbalho and the people of Pará are prepared to promote the best COP… pic.twitter.com/exjqTTeuyt — Lula (@LulaOficial) May 26, 2023 In a video posted on Twitter in which he appears alongside the governor and also from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira, Lula evaluates the choice of the city to host the COP30 as “extraordinary news to give to the people of the state of Pará, to the city of Belém and to Brazil”. Egypt, in Paris, in Copenhagen and people only talk about the Amazon. And I said: ‘Why then not hold the COP in an Amazon state so that you can get to know what the Amazon is? See what the rivers of the Amazon are , the forests of the Amazon, the fauna of the Amazon'”, he added. COP30 should be held in November 2025. The choice of the city to host the event, according to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, was made by the UN on the last 18th. of climate in Brazil and in the city of Belém”.


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