Questão 33 - UDESC Manhã 2026/1

        To host UN climate talks, Brazil chose one of its poorer cities. That’s no accident.

 

When world leaders, diplomats, business leaders, scientists and activists go to Brazil in November for the United Nations’ annual climate negotiations, poverty, deforestation and much of the world’s troubles will be right in their faces — by design.

In past conference cities — including resort areas and playgrounds for the rich such as Bali, Cancun, Paris, Sharm El-Sheikh and Dubai — host nations show off both their amenities and what their communities have done about climate change. But this year’s conference is in a high-poverty city on the edge of the Amazon to demonstrate what needs to be done.

“What better way to tackle a problem than facing it head on, however uncomfortable”, COP30 President-designate André Corrêa do Lago said. “We cannot hide the fact that we are in the world with lots of inequalities and where sustainability and fighting climate change is something that has to get closer to people”.

This is a significant year for climate negotiations, but some of the negotiations’ most important work won’t be on the formal agenda, such as providing $1.3 trillion in financial help to poorer nations in dealing with climate change or the protection of forests.

On Wednesday, the United Nation’s top court ruled that a clean and healthy environment is a basic human right, a decision that may bolster efforts to come up with stronger action at the climate conference, some activists said.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-cop30-brazil-climate-do-lago-1968c645b24a5cfc5aa363da01d44495. Access on August 26, 2025. [Adapted].

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