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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey Environment editor

Countries must bolster climate efforts or risk war, Cop30 chief executive warns

Ana Toni wearing a white blazer and blue lanyard, sitting in front of a blue background looking concerned.
Ana Toni: ‘We need to take climate change very seriously, otherwise we will have even more wars in the future.’ Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

Countries looking to boost their national security through rearmament or increased defence spending must also bolster their climate efforts or face more wars in the future, one of the leaders of the next UN climate summit has warned.

Some countries could decide to include climate spending in their defence budgets, suggested Ana Toni, Brazil’s chief executive of the Cop30 summit.

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