LatinNews Daily - 12 November 2026

*Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has reiterated calls for world leaders to address global warming, in a speech yesterday at the United Nations climate change conference (COP31) which is taking place in Antalya, Turkey. The key priorities mentioned in his speech included reducing greenhouse gas emissions, combatting deforestation in the Amazon, and developing the roadmaps initiated last year when Brazil hosted COP30. He also expressed regret that “climate change has disappeared from the speeches and documents of global leaders… we have started talking more about weapons and tariffs rather than the survival of future generations”. Regarding the initiatives announced at COP30, Lula used his speech yesterday to highlight Brazil’s proposed roadmaps to phase out fossil fuels, curb deforestation, and raise global climate financing to at least US$1.3tn per year. The Brazilian diplomat who served as COP30 president last year, André Corrêa do Lago, formally presented Brazil’s fossil fuel phaseout plan in Antalya the day before Lula’s speech.