B/N: Brazil: COP30 Climate Summit

President Inácio Lula da Silva gives a speech on the COP30 Climate Summit

Transcript

00:00First of all, I would like to greet the Secretary General of the United Nations, our dear friend

00:11Antonio Guterres.

00:13I also would like to greet King Carl Gustav and Queen Sylvia from Sweden, on behalf of

00:21which I would like to greet on their behalf all heads of delegation, all heads of state

00:27and government in this conference.

00:29I would like to greet the Speaker of the House of the Senate, my brother Alcolumbre.

00:35I also would like to greet the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hugo Mota.

00:41I would like to greet Mr. Fachin, that is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Brazil.

00:47I also would like to greet my Foreign Affairs Minister, Mauro Vieira, and my sister, Marina

00:55Silva, who is the Environment Minister of Brazil, for which, on her behalf, I greet all the

01:01ministers, state ministers that came with me, and the Ambassador Lago, that is the President

01:08of the House of Representatives.

01:09I also would like to greet the President of the House of the House of Representatives,

01:14and also like to greet the partner of this journey and friend, Aldo Barbado, that is the Governor

01:21of the State of Pará, and to greet my dear wife, Janja.

01:28After more than 30 years after the Earth Summit in Rio, the Climate Convention comes back to

01:37the country where it was born.

01:39Today, the eyes of the world are now looking towards Berlin with great expectation.

01:45For the first time in history, a climate cope will take place in the heart of the Amazon.

01:54In the global imaginary, there is no higher symbol of the environmental cause than the Amazon

02:01forest.

02:02Here, we have thousands of rivers and igarapés that make up the largest hydro basin in the

02:10planet.

02:11Here live thousands of species of plants and animals that are part of the most diverse biome

02:19in the Earth.

02:21Here live millions of people and hundreds of indigenous people where their lives are faced

02:27by a false dilemma between prosperity and preservation.

02:36They are the ones that daily put together the way they live and seeking for existence and

02:46livelihood that is legitimate and with dignity and with the main mission to protect one of

02:52the highest cultural heritage of humanity that is the nature.

02:56So it's fair to say that it's now the time, it is the time of the people of the Amazon

03:02to ask what is being done by the rest of the world to avoid the collapse of their house.

03:09Multilateralism and the Paris Agreement in the year of 2025, that's a landmark for multilateralism.

03:17We celebrate 80 years of the foundation of the United Nations organization and 10 years of the adoption

03:28of the Paris Agreement.

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