ANTALYA: With conflicts and defence spending surging worldwide, several leaders and environmental groups on Wednesday urged heads of state at the UN climate summit to redirect funds from wars to saving the planet.
"We are told there is no money, but the spending on war grows," said Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine, whose country is among the most vulnerable to rising sea levels.
"The greatest security threat we face remains underfunded. I appeal to you: find money for life, not death," she told the COP31 conference in Turkiye.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has presided over a sharp drop in deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, said climate change had "disappeared" from the global agenda.
