When organizers of this yr’s worldwide local weather convention adopted ‘mutirao’ — a Portuguese phrase of Indigenous origin that means ‘collective effort’ — because the occasion’s official slogan, they had been reinforcing a message first conveyed by the selection of location for COP30.
The Amazonian metropolis of Belem was chosen for the talks to showcase the function of the area’s 1.7 million Indigenous peoples as expert stewards of the world’s largest rainforest.
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