Lula scolds leaders as war and inflation eclipse climate crisis

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'We started talking more about weapons and tariffs than the survival of future generations,' Lula said.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva urged fellow world leaders to move more aggressively to combat climate change, warning countries have become complacent on global warming as other risks escalate.

“We started talking more about weapons and tariffs than the survival of future generations,” Lula, as he’s universally known, said Wednesday at the United Nations-convened COP31 climate negotiations in Antalya, Turkey. “With the wars and inflation knocking on our doors today, it is more difficult for us to deal with this climate catastrophe of tomorrow.”

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president, speaks at the Leaders Summit at the COP31 climate conference in Antalya, Turkey, on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026.

Lula addressed dozens of other leaders at the conference, fresh from his reelection to a fourth term, a come-from-behind victory against climate sceptic Flávio Bolsonaro. That, along with Democratic gains in the US midterm elections, has injected fresh optimism into the two weeks of talks that began November 9.

His call for renewed momentum, coming more than a decade after the adoption of the landmark Paris Agreement, follows a bleak United Nations assessment that the world can no longer achieve the accord’s key commitment to prevent global warming exceeding 1.5C.

“The truth is that we have the power to determine how high, how long and how devastating that overshoot will be,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the meeting, making a similar appeal for accelerated action. “We have the power to make sure the overshoot is a temporary breach.”

The tens of thousands of diplomats, delegates and activists gathered in Antalya for the COP31 talks are confronting a major challenge: The world’s work to fund and combat global warming has waned even as its impacts are accelerating.

The consequences of planetary warming have been highlighted this year by tens of thousands of deaths tied to lethal heat waves and wildfires across Europe as well as a devastating glacier…

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