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Government faces crisis ahead of major conference: 'We worry about the future'

As the world prepares for COP30, the U.N.'s climate change conference to be held in Belém, Brazil, this year, the host nation's nearby Combu Island is desperately grappling with the overheating ...
Mongabay

Smallholder farmers defy cocoa’s production model in Brazil

Filha do Combu, a family-run chocolate factory in the Amazon makes tree-to-table organic chocolate and is an exception to this model. Using an agroforestry system, smallholder farms like Filha do ...
Mongabay

Rising heat and falling yields plague an Amazon island near COP30 host

If you liked this story, share it with other people. However, the natural life that once inspired Barata’s poetry is now under threat. The story takes us to Combu Island, a 10-minute boat ride from ...
Philippine Daily Inquirer

COP30: How Amazon communities battle inequality, rely on nature

Government staff and the Singapore youth with Combu Island resident Lana Pantoja (third from right) and her family. ST PHOTO: ANG QING BELEM, Brazil – A 10-minute boat ride from Belem, where the world ...