Some countries could decide to include climate spending in their defence budgets, suggested Ana Toni, Brazil’s chief executive of the Cop30 summit. Unfortunately, climate change is there for a long time. We need to take climate change very seriously, otherwise we will have even more wars in the future. So that trade-off between short-term defence needs now, versus the long-term need to prevent this bigger fight on climate change, is absolutely needed. Toni predicted that the US’s turn away from climate action under Trump would not weaken China’s efforts to cut carbon.

Source: The Guardian March 19, 2025 03:08 UTC