The Azores are highlighted at COP30 for their leadership in preserving seas and oceans.

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The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) will take place from November 10th to 21st in Belém, Brazil. Delegations from over 190 countries are expected, most of them signatories to the Paris Agreement, and over 50,000 participants from various organizations, NGOs, and civil society. At the invitation of the COP30 Presidency, the Azores reaffirm their international leadership in ocean and coastal restoration and occupy a prominent position in the delegation from Portugal, a member of the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). Diário dos Açores learned about the Azorean mission to COP30 in an exclusive interview with Bernardo Brito e Abreu, advisor to the President of the Government of the Azores with the Ministry of the Sea and Fisheries, and Adriano Quintela, a biologist with a PhD in Geography from the University of the Azores. Both work in the Blue Azores Program, providing government coordination and operational and information management, respectively.