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<\/a>\u201cIt is unacceptable that the promise of USD 100 billion per year made by developed countries does not come to fruition while, in 2021 alone, military spending reached USD 2.22 trillion. An amount that could be invested in fighting hunger and tackling climate change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Lula said that the wealthiest 1% of the planet emits the same amount of carbon as 66% of the world\u2019s population. The president also questioned the impact of conflicts on the climate and the injustice of wars.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many tonnes of carbon are emitted by missiles that cross the sky and fall on innocent civilians, especially starving children and women? The climate change bill is not the same for everyone. And it arrived first for the poorest populations,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n
Lula mentioned the tragic drought in the Amazon and the storms and cyclones that left a trail of destruction in the southern region of his country. \u201c2023 is already the hottest year in the last 125,000 years. Humanity suffers from increasingly extreme and frequent droughts, floods, and heat waves. Science and reality show us that now there is a price to pay. The planet will no longer wait to demand it from the next generation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Vulnerabilities<\/strong><\/p>\n The president said that \u201cthe world has naturalized unacceptable disparities in income, gender, and race\u201d and that it is not possible to tackle climate change without fighting inequality.<\/p>\n \u201cThose who are hungry have their existence trapped in the pain of the present. They become unable to think about tomorrow.\u201d For him, reducing socioeconomic vulnerabilities means building resilience in the face of extreme events. \u201c<\/strong>It also means being able to redirect efforts towards the fight against global warming,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe most vulnerable cannot choose between fighting climate change or poverty. They will have to do both. The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities is non-negotiable. Jeopardizing it goes against any basic notion of climate justice. This notion demands that financing and technology transfer commitments be fulfilled,\u201d said Lula.<\/p>\n Lula compared the current moment with that in which he participated in COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009 when a great effort was needed to reach the Paris Agreement in 2015. \u201cUpon returning to the presidency of Brazil, I realized that we are, today, in a similar situation. Failure to fulfill the commitments undermines the government\u2019s credibility,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Multilateralism<\/strong><\/p>\n Criticizing the countries of the Global North, Lula said it is necessary to recover the belief in multilateralism. \u201cIt is inexplicable that the UN, despite its efforts, is unable to maintain peace simply because some of its members profit from war. Regrettably, agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol (1997) or the Paris Agreements (2015) are not enforced,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The Brazilian leader said that governments cannot escape their responsibilities and no country will solve its problems alone. \u201cWe all have to act together beyond our borders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Loss and damage fund<\/strong><\/p>\n In addition to Lula, the president of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and the secretary-general of the UN, Antonio Guterres, spoke at the opening and praised the COP28 for having started this Thursday (30) with the announcement of a historic investment agreement<\/strong> to support countries most affected by the climate crisis, worth USD 420 million. The European Union will contribute USD 246 million, the United Arab Emirates USD 100 million, and the United States USD 17.5 million \u2013 other countries will also collaborate. The amounts, however, were considered meager.<\/p>\n King Charles of the United Kingdom spoke before Lula. After the president, the floor was given to Brazilian Isabel Prestes da Fonseca, indigenous leader of the Munduruku people and co-founder and environmental director of the Zag Institute, which is dedicated to afforestation.<\/p>\n OPEC+<\/strong><\/p>\n This Thursday (30), Brazil was invited to participate in OPEC+, a group of oil-producing countries and their allies. The minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira, declared that the invitation is under analysis and that president Lula will make the final decision. Considering this possibility, Silveira said that Brazil\u2019s goal will be to discuss the position of oil-producing countries in this phase of global energy transition.\u00a0The Environment and Climate Change minister of Brazil, Marina Silva, told the press her country would participate in the organization as an observer.<\/p>\n Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In his speech at the opening of COP28 in Dubai, the president of Brazil criticized richer countries that did not comply with the Paris Agreement and compared the amounts spent on weapons with the amount that could be allocated to the climate change loss and damage fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2305,"featured_media":357493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,46549,103],"tags":[340,46796,5392,36288,46797,36622,20186,26555,23864,26994,36210,40611,46820,46798,34379,46821,5397,41688,46822],"class_list":{"0":"post-359083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"category-energy","9":"category-sustainability","10":"tag-un","11":"tag-abertura-cop28","12":"tag-acordo-de-paris","13":"tag-climate-summit","14":"tag-conferencia-da-onu-para-mudancas-climaticas","15":"tag-cop28-en","16":"tag-cupula-do-clima","17":"tag-dubai-en-2","18":"tag-emirados-en-2","19":"tag-emirates-en-3","20":"tag-lula-en-2","21":"tag-lula-uae","22":"tag-multilateralism","23":"tag-multilateralismo","24":"tag-onu-en","25":"tag-opening-cop28","26":"tag-paris-agreement","27":"tag-uae-en-2","28":"tag-un-conference-climate-change"},"wps_subtitle":"In his speech at the opening of COP28 in Dubai, the president of Brazil criticized richer countries that did not comply with the Paris Agreement and compared the amounts spent on weapons with the amount that could be allocated to the climate change loss and damage fund.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}