Brazil's Lula Says Climate Change Has Disappeared From Global Agenda at COP31

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva used his speech at COP31 in Antalya, Turkey, to argue that climate change has fallen off the global agenda. He pointed at G7 and G20 meetings, saying leaders now spend more time on arms and tariffs than on the survival of future generations. Lula's comments come after his re-election win and after years of falling deforestation in the Amazon. He said Brazil is back in the climate fight and defended the rainforest's role as a carbon sink. The speech lands at a COP where concerns have been raised about slow and inadequate action.