18 November:

From the moment we started moving through Belém, Brazil, on our first full day at this year’s UN Climate Conference, it became clear that the public image and the reality on the ground couldn’t be more different.

The scale of this event is overwhelming — tens of thousands of delegates arriving at once, the city stretched to its limits, and the infrastructure around the summit straining under the pressure.

This conference is promoted as a model of environmental responsibility, yet its surroundings tell a different story.

That’s why my producer, Kian, and I came to show the parts that aren’t included in the UN’s staged presentations and official talking points, and to report on what’s happening in the areas they don’t want you to see.

Here’s what we found on our first day here.

A luxury jet hub… in the Amazon.

Our first report showed Belém’s international airport transformed into a landing pad for the world’s climate aristocracy. With no private airstrip available, authorities simply upgraded the main airport to handle the flood of VIP jets and charter flights.

Some 55,000 delegates, activists, and protesters flew in. The emissions tab? Roughly 165,000 tonnes of CO₂ — about the annual emissions of an entire island nation like the Cook Islands, or the same output as 9,000 Canadians heating their homes through a -30 winter.

But ordinary people are told to cut back while these elites burn through a country’s annual carbon budget in a single week.

We found the UN’s “climate highway” through the Amazon!

We tracked down the so-called “Avenida Liberdade” — a 13-kilometre cut through the Amazon rainforest that was shelved for years because it was considered too destructive. But with the UN summit approaching, officials dusted off the plan and started carving into the jungle.

It’s hardly a road… raw earth, exposed slopes, garbage piles, heavy machinery, and no pavement. Many drivers don’t know how to reach it, and security personnel openly admit that their job includes shooting down drones to prevent images from getting out.

You must drive less. You must sacrifice more. But the UN can rip open the Amazon to avoid traffic delays.

Welcome to “Fart Park”!

One of Belém’s showcase revitalization projects for the summit is Nova Doca Park. After visiting, I call it what it is: Fart Park.

The park sits beside an open, untreated sewage canal. Instead of fixing the problem, the city planted flowers in the sewage to hide the smell — and now the flowers are dying.

We came looking for the infamous multimillion-dollar designer fiberglass trees. We haven’t found them yet. But we did find rebar wrapped in vines to mimic trees… in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. They call them “eco trees.” Yes, they cut down real trees… to install fake ones.

This summit is enormous — more than 50,000 delegates, activists, lobbyists and bureaucrats have flooded into this city. Every room is booked, every road is jammed, and every inch of the official “blue zone” is designed to present a smooth, carefully curated narrative about global climate leadership.

But the real story isn’t inside the air-conditioned halls. It’s outside — where private jets stack up on the runway, diesel buses idle in long lines, sewage flows past floating hotels, and a brand new roadway was carved straight through the Amazon rainforest. 

Independent reporters like us are the only ones willing to film the contradictions and ask questions the UN’s preferred media outlets won’t touch. None of this would be seen if we weren’t on the ground to show you.

Rebel News does not take government money. We crowdfund every mission so we can stay independent — allowing us to keep documenting what the UN hopes will remain hidden. But getting to northern Brazil and working here is costly.

If you want independent Canadian journalists to continue asking the questions the legacy media won’t, please consider supporting our work and following all our reports at RebelUN.com.

Yours truly,

Sheila Gunn Reid
Rebel News

P.S. Everyone else here is on a government or lobbyist-funded expense account. We’re the only ones paying our own way so that we can ask real questions — outside the scripted rooms, outside the press bubble, and outside the UN’s curated photo ops.

19 November

Things have escalated dramatically here in Belém.

On one side of the barricades, UN organizers are insisting that this year’s climate conference is all about peace, sustainability, and global cooperation. On the other side? Helicopters circling overhead, riot police in full gear, military checkpoints, and panicked staff scrambling to contain the fallout from an activist breach that completely shattered their carefully staged climate pageant.

Earlier this week, Indigenous activists stormed the perimeter of the summit grounds. Within minutes, the UN’s climate utopia transformed into a militarized zone. The very people who preach open borders and “climate migration” fenced themselves in behind walls, concrete blocks, and armed officers.

Here’s my full report on the lockdown, the chaos, and the militarization of this UN climate summit.

Independent journalists like us are being kept as far away as possible — drones shot down, routes blocked, and key areas sealed tight. Yet somehow, the same activists the UN usually celebrates managed to cut through their security theatre and spark absolute panic. It revealed something they never admit: This summit is only “open” if you’re on their approved list.

Once inside the areas we are permitted to access, the contradictions only deepen.

The “Green Zone,” which the UN sells as an educational and family-friendly climate showcase, is really a sprawling commercial expo where NGOs, multinational corporations, and lobbyists vie for influence through glossy displays and guilt-driven sales pitches.

Come take a look inside the Green Zone with me!

Here’s what I saw:

• Booths selling “carbon offsets” for about $22 a hit — a literal pay-to-feel-better scheme.
• A forest of fake trees stuck into fake soil inside one of the world’s most biodiverse regions.
• Lobbyists and activists cooling off in power-hungry air-conditioned lounges while preaching energy austerity to everyone else.
• A pro-Iran exhibit pushing messaging that veers disturbingly close to historical blood libels, blaming Jews for environmental harm — all under the banner of “climate justice.”

There was even a “cultural marketplace” meant to showcase local Indigenous crafts — but almost no delegates were buying anything. It felt like a staged backdrop for photo ops rather than genuine support.

Inside the UN Climate Conference, virtue is for sale. Everything has a price tag, and the only real renewable resource is hypocrisy.

Whenever we film something the UN would rather not talk about, security descends almost instantly. They don’t want the world to see fences, police convoys, propaganda booths, or the massive commercial machine behind their moralizing.

But that’s precisely what we’re documenting — not the staged version, but the real one unfolding just outside their talking points.

And we can only do that because we aren’t funded by governments, NGOs, or corporate lobbyists.

We pay our own way. We answer only to you, our viewers. And frankly, getting to the Amazon, working from here, and staying long enough to cut through the spin is enormously expensive.

If you want us to keep exposing what the UN tries to hide, please follow our reports and, if you’re able, help cover the cost of this mission at RebelUN.com.

We’ll keep showing you the truth — no matter how many barricades they put up.

Yours truly,

Sheila Gunn Reid

P.S. The activists, NGOs, lobbyists, and UN staff here all have one thing in common: they’re using someone else’s money. Taxpayers, donors, foundations, corporations — anyone but themselves. We’re the opposite. We’re here because our viewers sent us, and we stay only as long as our audience supports independent reporting.

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