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UN Chief Opens Belém Climate Summit, Calls for COP30 Action

UN Chief Opens Belém Climate Summit, Calls for COP30 Action

    UN Chief Opens Belém Climate Summit, Calls for COP30 Action
    Above: U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres speaks during the Belém Climate Summit on Nov. 6, 2025. Image copyright: Wagner Meier/Getty Images

    The Spin

    The climate crisis poses one of the greatest threat to humanity, with record CO2 levels and devastating storms like Hurricane Melissa proving urgent action is needed now. World leaders must resist Trump's dangerous climate denialdenialism and commit to a full fossil fuel phase-out with massive climate finance for vulnerable nations. Optimism may be at a low point, but COP30 represents humanity's last chance to prevent catastrophic warming.

    Climate conferences like COP30 are nothing but expensive spectacles that waste taxpayer money while enriching communist countries like China. These UNU.N. gatherings have achieved little environmental progress in 30 years while driving up energy costs and undermining local industries. Leaders like President Trump are completely right to skip these costly, anti-Western gatherings of an issue that has been completely blown out of proportion.

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    Climate action must focus on people, not just temperature targets, recognizing that climate change is serious but not civilization-ending. COP30 is a chance to prioritize human welfare, using innovation in energy, agriculture and health to lift the poorest while cutting emissions. Leaders should embrace breakthroughs that reduce the Green Premium and fund interventions that actually save lives — because the true measure of climate success is improving living conditions, not symbolic pledges.

    Metaculus Prediction

    There is a 10% chance that if a global catastrophe occurs before 2100, it will be due to either human-made climate change or geoengineering, according to the Metaculus prediction community.



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