UN Chief & World Leaders Meet to Reaffirm Paris Agreement

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Wednesday that the alternative to climate change lies in multilateralism and international cooperation as a cornerstone. “We need multilateralism and international cooperation to remain the cornerstone of the global response to climate change,” said the president during the Virtual Climate Summit that prepares the ground for the COP30 in Belém (10-21 November). Belém is the capital and largest ci…

UN Chief & World Leaders Meet to Reaffirm Paris Agreement

UN chief António Guterres and President Lula da Silva of Brazil held a closed-door meeting with heads of state to discuss reaffirming the Paris Agreement.

At a high-level virtual summit held this Wednesday, UN Secretary General António Guterres and Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have met with 17 leaders from major economies and countries vulnerable to climate change. The objective is to accelerate global climate ambition for COP30, to be held in Brazil in November of this year. The meeting is part of a joint mobilization strategy of both leaders to strengthen global action within the…

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, called on world leaders to deliver ambitious goals for reducing carbon emissions this Wednesday (23). Only 10% of the countries submitted their new Nationally Determined Contributions, the NDCs, which are individual efforts to combat climate change. “The NDCs preparation architecture is flexible enough to combine ambitious goals and the d…

Global Leaders Rally Behind Climate Action Agenda

At a high-level virtual summit convened on Wednesday, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spearheaded efforts to re-energize global climate action.  The closed-door session gathered 17 heads of state and government from across major economies and climate-vulnerable nations in what has been hailed as one of the most diverse meetings on climate leadership in recent memory. The gatheri…

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, met, this Wednesday (23), with 20 global leaders to ask for more engagement in sending their new Nationally Determined Contributions, the NDCs, with targets to reduce carbon emissions by 2035. Speaking during the virtual summit on Climate Ambition, Lula demanded that nations submit plans before the 30th United Nations Conference on Cl…