Torrential rainfall in the Brazilian city of Belem flooded pavements outside the venue for the #COP30 climate talks. Scientists say climate change is making extreme weather events more common. | Al Jazeera English

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva blasted climate change deniers at the start of the COP30 summit in Bellen. He told delegates "It is much cheaper to spend one trillion three hundred billion dollars to end this deadly problem than to spend two trillion seven hundred billion dollars on war, as they did last year." The figure of $1.3 trillion is the amount that the COP29 and COP30 presidencies have identified as the annual climate financing needed for developing countries by 2035 to me