The United Nations’ COP30 climate doomer conference officially kicked off on Monday in Brazil with the notable absences of top world polluters China and India. [emphasis, links added]
President Donald Trump, who has been at the forefront of pushing back against the U.N.’s climate agenda, did not send any high-level representatives to the gathering.
This year’s COP sees some 50,000 representatives from over 190 countries gather in the Brazilian city of Belém, Pará, consuming a significant amount of fossil fuels in air travel to condemn non-green energy through a two-week-long agenda addressing “climate change,” green policies, and other topics related to the Paris Agreement agenda — which President Trump pulled the U.S. out of this year.
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright recently described COP30 as “harmful and misguided,” and as a “hoax,” suggesting that he may participate in next year’s COP “just to try and deliver some common sense.”
The upcoming series of meetings was preceded by a two-day Summit hosted by Brazil’s radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in which Lula and several other leftist presidents, such as Colombia’s Gustavo Petro and Chile’s outgoing President Gabriel Boric, dedicated time at the podium to lash out against President Trump for standing against the climate alarmism movement.
The Brazilian outlet Poder 360 reported that last week’s Summit had the lowest number of heads of state in four years, with only 18 presidents, 11 prime ministers, the Vatican Secretary of State, and one king traveling.
The outlet remarked that the turnout is roughly half that of COP29, hosted in Baku, Azerbaijan, and less than a quarter of the 139 heads of state reportedly participated in COP28, which was hosted by the United Arab Emirates in 2023.
Even the BBC called into question the need for a two-week-long world climate gathering, given that over 160 heads of state skipped out on the Summit, including President Trump, China’s Xi Jinping, and India’s Narendra Modi.
Breitbart News recently reported that even Bill Gates downgraded the severity of “climate change,” a notable change after years of continued climate doomerism from the Microsoft cofounder.
Although the COP yearly gatherings are allegedly intended to present “solutions” to climate change and pro-environmentalists’ causes, reports from earlier this year indicate that the Brazilian government decimated thousands of acres of the Amazon rainforest to make way for a highway in Belém for COP30, which President Trump reiterated on Sunday on Truth Social.
Top image of COP30 opening ceremony via Reuters’ Live Climate Summit/YouTube screencap
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