COP30 CEO: “Climate change is our biggest war”
5 hours ago Eric Worrall
Essay by Eric Worrall
The Brazilian climate conference leadership is fed up with trade wars and shooting wars distracting from climate negotiations.
‘Climate is our biggest war’, warns CEO of Cop30 ahead of UN summit in Brazil
Negotiators doubt countries’ financial and environmental commitment as military and trade wars divert attention
Fiona Harvey Environment editor
Sun 29 Jun 2025 14.00 AEST
“Climate is our biggest war. Climate is here for the next 100 years. We need to focus and … not allow those [other] wars to take our attention away from the bigger fight that we need to have.”
Ana Toni, the chief executive of Cop30, the UN climate summit to be held in Brazil this November, is worried. With only four months before the crucial global summit, the world’s response to the climate crisis is in limbo.
Fewer than 30 of the 200 countries that will gather in the Amazonian city of Belém have drafted plans, required by the 2015 Paris agreement, to stave off the worst ravages of climate breakdown.
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