2025-11-10
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Today, a slow boat to COP 30.
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This year, when John Watts was planning how he'd get to COP,
he decided he was going to take the long way round.
We got a producer based in Santerim to find the right boat,
so he spent weeks going along the riverfront,
asking which boats might be available,
and they eventually found a vessel that was called the Carolina du Norge.
That's kind of a river bus, I think you might say,
and normally people would take this for long journeys between cities in the Amazon.
And this would be a very long journey,
three days across hundreds of kilometres from Santa Rem in Brazil to Belém,
the host city of this year's climate conference, deep in the rainforest.