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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Meanwhile, the US president, Donald Trump, has withdrawn from the Paris agreement and is intent on expanding fossil fuels and dismantling carbon-cutting efforts. The EU is mired in tense arguments over its plans. China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is rumoured to be considering weak targets that would condemn the world to much greater heating.
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Toni, a respected Brazilian economist, told the Guardian: “There’s no doubt that the wars that we’ve seen – military wars and trade wars … are very damaging – physically, economically, socially – and they divert the direction and the attention from climate.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/29/climate-is-our-biggest-war-warns-ceo-of-cop30-ahead-of-un-summit-in-brazil
Are we finally coming to the end of the COP climate process?
Nations are struggling to get their homework in on time, everyone wants to see what everyone else is doing before they submit their own grudging climate plan.
China is rebelling, new coal approvals have surged.
India is powering their economic catchup with China by building more coal infrastructure.
Africa is racing up from the bottom, building enormous fossil fuel projects to leapfrog their economies into the modern world.
European nations, as usual are being utter hypocrites – pretending they care about climate change, while rushing to exploit and import as much fossil fuel as they can, to prop up their failed renewable systems. Leave it in the ground – except when a European company or nation wants it.
Even Brazil, the host of the COP30 climate conference, is getting into the climate hypocrisy act, clearing a large tract of Amazonian rainforest to create a new highway to the conference site. I wonder if conference participants will be able to purchase souvenirs made from the rare and endangered hardwoods which were bulldozed to make that climate conference road?
And towering over all this is the US led AI revolution, which is driving a profound uptick in demand for energy across the entire world – an increase in demand which cannot be answered by renewables.
The global climate movement is the walking dead, all we need is to wait a little for it to lay down and stop moving.
Toni :
Go to China and bitch at them first .
FAFO
The acronym FAFO (F Around and Find Out) means that actions have consequences.
“The quote “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less” is from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, spoken by the character Humpty Dumpty. This quote reflects a view of language where the speaker’s intention solely determines the meaning of words.”
This is quite apparent when words are hijacked, redefined with intent to repurpose the words.
It is a long list in the Climate Syndicate lexicon and people just see comfortable using the bastardized versions. The result? The Climate Syndicate gains credibility because even the skeptics use it.
“Climate is here for the next 100 years.”
It has been here for over four billion year and will be here til the sun becomes a red gigant in some billion years …
Are they serving Cool Aid at the ‘Jim Jones 2.0’ cult meeting? If not, they should … (sorry, but couldn’t resist …)
On the BBC yesterday some idiot said “Since the beginning of climate change ….. ” and went on about hotter heat waves, more extreme weather etc..
Sometimes I despair.
“for the next 100 years” was also sitting in my copy-paste buffer.
Next question to quoted speaker: “Then what happens?”
Then you cease to have any coherent arguments at all.
To be pedantic, it was FlavorAid that Jim Jones served up (he was too cheap to
buy KoolAid).
And to be even more pedantic, only the first of his followers drank it willingly. The rest revolted when they saw its effect, at which point he started shooting them.
But she is a “respected Brazilian economist,” therefore, everything she says must be taken seriously!
/sarc
She is either ignorant, pushing an agenda, or most likely both.
She looks quite fit, bright & intelligent, but as my old granny used to say …
Don’t judge the jam by the picture on the pot.
This time for sure!
The usual donation tin will be passed around for the 3rd world and pacific island nations and the contribution will be less than the budget for all the parties to attend the gabfest.
Do search on “Budget for COP29”. The poor countries were clamoring for least at 300 billion a year. Some countries were asking for a whole lot more, like a trillion a year to help them cope with global warming and climate change.
How much of these funds will poor actually get after gov. administrators, consultants, middle men etc. take their “fees”?
How much will “leak” into the dark money funder accounts?
The principal beneficiaries of any COP conference are the prostitutes. Forget about climate commitments; the only real question is about whether or not the local talent can meet the conference demand. For COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheik they had thousands coming from various parts of Europe.
Hmmm…. Hot women = hot climate? Maybe there is a correlationship that needs to be explored?
/sarc
Any volunteers?
Get the financing and we can start.
why do you think they put the new roads in?
Street walkers need a street.
and it’s a very long street…
If by prostitutes you mean the attendees, then yes.
And the primarily shit-hole country mendicants have nothing to offer in exchange.
Have the Brazilians finished chopping down trees and building that road?
The Chinese ‘renewable transition’ does not exist. It is a linguistic con. It can therefore not be ‘undermined’.
“The global climate movement is the walking dead, all we need is to wait a little for it to lay down and stop moving.”
I have grown old reading a continuing stream of “walking dead” predictions. They are probably equal in number to the failed predictions of the climate alarmists. I just hope the climate scam actually expires before me.
Given my age of 77 its a real race. But I’ve got my walking shoes and free weights and weight machines-gym membership to increase my chances of winning.
The climate is fine. Have a nice cup of tea and a lie down. The Great Barrier Reef is even more fine😂
I’ll have a pint…
The absurd money printing over the last 30 years has led everyone to believe we’ve been living in prosperous times in which the climate alarm agenda could be put forward turbocharged by the printing of more money to go towards the (absurd) net zero target. But now that whole house of cards is tumbling down. The luxury of progressive ( read regressive) thinking is bouncing against several reality walls, financial, economical, geo political. It is a dying idea similar to the one about continuous US hegemony coming from the other side. The panic is on from both sides and the people are getting squeezed..
Usually the situation you describe leads to wars to allow debt and population reset but I don’t think technology allows a war this time- the ones going on now look to me like lone national big kids beating up lone national little kids.
They openly declare they are waging war against Human Race. Fine, we have to treat them as the enemy they are.
I think that they are trying really hard to maximize human civilizational entropy. Entropy is at a maximum in a system when all of the elements in the system are in the same state, and no more work can be extracted from the system. The entire goal of the environmentalist progressives is to reduce all of the elements of civilization to a state of equity, where they all have the same capability and behavior, and are therefore unable to do any work.
They have also corrupted the meaning of the word entropy with the creation of various concepts they call “human entropy”, which is applied to very different situations than the original meaning in thermodynamics.
Yes, that is one of the leftists’ tactics.
If in fact we’re going to make war on climates, (“fight climate change”) we should embrace the first principles of war-making.
Sun Tzu’s “The Art Of War” is instructive in this regard, and should be compulsory preparation for all CoP attendees, to wit –
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
30 years? Wow! That’s 30 years of screaming, crying, shouting, finger-pointing, shaming, guilt-tripping, posturing, and every other antic you can come up with about absolutely nothing except an imaginary, totally fictitious foe. The level of Stupid required for that is mind blowing. With any luck, this will be the last one though. The jig is up, and they know it.
they’re hoping that 30 times is a charm
Seems it is more like 50, although it could be 60 or 70 depending on which historical landmark one uses to measure.
“Climate is our biggest war.”
More like, the war against climate nut jobs is our biggest war.
Apparently, there was also an UN conference
https://www.carbonbrief.org/bonn-climate-talks-key-outcomes-from-the-june-2025-un-climate-conference/
“UN negotiations were marked by protracted “agenda fights” and calls for developed countries to provide more funding for climate action in developing countries.”
“Besides the core $300bn target that emerged from COP29, there was a looser, aspirational call for “all actors” to scale up climate funds to “at least $1.3tn” by 2035.”
“The US, previously one of the biggest contributors, has cancelled virtually all of its climate aid. Major European donors, including Germany, France and the UK, have also announced aid cuts, meaning less support for climate projects overseas.”
Once the free money runs out the entire CAGW edifice will collapse. I suspect this is already happening.
I am soooo over weather worrying nowadays and into the next big thing- Ocean darkening!
The sea along Norway’s coast has gotten darker. That’s bad news for fish, seagrass and kelp
More rain and more treesClimate change is one of the most important explanations for why coastal waters are becoming more turbid, Frigstad says.
“Paradoxically, the reduction in acid rain in southern Norway in recent decades has led to more organic material being washed out of the soil, especially when we get more and more intense rainfall episodes,” Frigstad says.
And regardless of the pH in the soil, more rain and extreme weather means that more soil and other organic material ends up in the rivers.
Higher temperatures and more CO2 in the atmosphere also means increased growth of plants and forests, which also contributes to the turbidity.
In addition, humans affect the sea along the coast by using coastal lands in new ways.
“tur·bid /ˈtərbəd/
adjective
(of a liquid) cloudy, opaque, or thick with suspended matter.”
Thanks Frigstad and observa. Been a while since I’ve seen that word used non-metaphorically. It’s nice.
How about the next COP meeting in eastern Ukraine.
How about Fordo, Iran. I hear there are openings there.
Toni, please present objective, verifiable evidence that CO2 is, all by itself, the problem.
Until you do, STFU.
Everyone is doing their best to reduce emissions aren’t they ? 🙂
The Energy Institute have just published their latest ‘Statistical Review of World Energy’
Coal reached a global record level of demand in 2024 at 165EJ. 83% of demand was in the Asia- Pacific region, 67% of which was in China.
Coal still dominates China’s electricity sector – 58% in 2024.
India’s coal consumption now equals that of the CIS, South and Central America, North America and Europe combined. Coal is now 75% of India’s generation fleet.
War war war war war war war. All war all the time. Lock and load, duck and cover, here comes more war war war. Shoot ’em up bang bang. War war war.
Haven’t you chumps got something better to do? God help us.
God is helping us. He is making the planet a bit more comfortable and greener.
Without a war we don’t exist as a country.
It is being reported that “eye-watering” lodging costs in Belem have “panicked” many would-be attendees of COP30. I will admit that $1,200 a night is not in my range, and I suspect the cost of getting there and food will be likewise so. Still, to save the world a bit of hyperbole needs to be tolerated. Ana Toni is trying to resurrect the big lie. Someone needs to tell her “the parrot is dead.” 🦜
No no he’s not dead, he’s, he’s restin’! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn’it, ay? Beautiful plumage!
A renewable parrot?
So it is. ‘Ere’s your money back and a couple of holiday vouchers.
Humor, a difficult concept.
— Tl. Saavik
You’re thinking of a Phoenix.
Dumbledore had one.
Don’t worry: Western taxpayers are an inexhaustible source of money for shit-hole attendees at all such luxurious international gab-fests.
I guess she let the parrot get too close to the wind turbine.
Dear Anna. Get real, the wheels are off the little green wagon.
“Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?” Let’s find out.
I don’t really care what Ana Toni thinks.
“Toni, a respected Brazilian economist…”
You would think a respected economist could readily see the wind and solar economics don’t add up. You would think she could see the positive growth of crops partly do to added CO2. She may be a good candidate for running a meeting but I put little value in her CAGW beliefs.