As Brazil prepares to host the COP30 climate summit, a stretch of rainforest is being cleared for a highway to welcome world leaders.

This year's controversial COP 30 climate change summit hasn't even started, but it's already causing environmental damage.

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.

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

Ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, developers are carving a four-lane highway through protected tracts of the

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.

As reported by the BBC, the state government of Pará cleared out eight miles of Amazon rainforest to build the highway. The BBC’s article has pictures of the clear-cut forest floor where logs have been piled up along a stretch of road that will soon hold concrete and passing cars.

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people - including world leaders - at the conference in November.

Tens of thousands of acres of the Amazon rainforest are being cut down to make room for a four-lane highway ahead of the COP30 climate summit

Brazilian officials said the highway is sustainable with wildlife crossings for animals to use and solar lighting.