The climate summit kicks off in times of global fracture: “It is time to impose a new defeat on the deniers”

Host country Brazil rails against misinformation, praises China’s momentum as Trump turns his back on COP on 10th anniversary of Paris Agreement

The annual climate summit, COP30, which is being held in the Amazonian city of Belém (Brazil), officially began on Monday after the previous meeting with dozens of prime ministers and presidents held on Thursday and Friday. This meeting, in which for two weeks the governments of almost the entire world will try to agree on a common approach to tackle the climate crisis, has started with 29 degrees and 73% humidity in the street and in the midst of a complicated international political moment that also interferes in the fight against global warming. The United States, which is the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has not sent any delegation for now, given that President Trump is on a crackdown on the climate agenda. Brazil’s COP30 presidency has praised China’s role, with its affordable technology, in driving the energy transition in developing countries.

“It is time to impose a new defeat on the deniers,” proclaimed Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the opening. Lula has warned, in his speech, against disinformation and algorithms that attack science.

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