Ghislaine Audebert (@ghislaineaudebert.bsky.social)

"Against humanity": World leaders slam Trump at COP30 climate summit President Trump's views on climate change were denounced by several Latin American leaders in Belém, Brazil, on Thursday at the COP30 UN summit. The big picture: Without naming Trump, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said "extremist forces that fabricate fake news and are condemning future generations to life on a planet altered forever by global warming." Chile and Colombia's leaders both specifically singled out the U.S. president in their COP30 speeches. What they're saying: Colombian President Gustavo Petro noted that Trump and high-level U.S. representatives were missing from COP30 as it got underway on Thursday, according to a Global News translation . "Mr. Trump is against humanity. His absence here demonstrates that," said Petro, whose country was hit with U.S. sanctions last month after Trump threatened tariffs and military action against it. Chilean President Gabriel Boric said "the president of the United States at the latest United Nations General Assembly said the climate crisis does not exist . That is a lie," per the translation. Of note: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer noted in his COP30 speech "sadly that consensus" on tackling the climate crisis "is gone," while French President Emmanuel Macron said "climate misinformation today poses a threat to our democracies, to the Paris agenda." The other side: White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told Politico that Trump "will not allow the best interest of the American people to be jeopardized by the Green Energy Scam." She added: "These Green Dreams are killing other countries, but will not kill ours thanks to President Trump's commonsense energy agenda!" Representatives for the White House did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment. Go deeper: COP30 confronts limits of the Paris Agreement system https://www.axios.com/2025/11/07/trump-un-cop30-climate-summit-brazil