COP30 does not suit the orange manbaby

Straight talking...

- NEIL LESLIE

IT'S probably for the best that Donald Trump has opted out of the global climate summit taking place in Brazil next week.

He wouldn't approve of the dress code for one thing.

As thousands of world leaders and delegates prepare to descend on the city of Belém in the Amazon, organisers issued this advisory: “The Government of Brazil wishes to inform all participants that, due to the high temperatures and humidity in Belém, formal business attire will not be required.

“To ensure everyone's comfort, the recommended dress code for the COP30 is smart casual.”

You can hear the cries from the orange manbaby's handpicked press corps: “Do these tree-huggers even own a suit!”

It’s also perhaps no harm that delegates will feel the heat at COP30.

It's 10 years since the nations of the world met in Paris and fixed 1.5 degrees of warming as the limit to avoid the worst impacts of a climate catastrophe.

For the fossil fuel industry that has been a decade of business as usual that has seen the temperature rise shatter 1.3 degrees and counting.