When Truth Comes from Nature The Declaration on Climate Information Integrity launched at COP30 is more than a document: it is an ethical umbrella. The day always begins according to the way we look at it. When I open the window slowly, the azalea is the first to respond — blooming as if reminding me that it is still worth believing. Over the years, I have written these small epiphanies — flowers, birds, rains, solar halos, jambeiros — as discreet notes from the Earth. Today I see that each one was preparing me for a time when listening to nature became a political act. I once found a bird singing from a dry bush. That kind of song that feels like good news, even when the branches are tired. I remembered this now, at COP30, while the world tries to choose the right words to defend something that shouldn’t need defending at all: the planet is warming. The bird sings despite the drought; we sing despite the noise. But someone keeps manufacturing shadows so many cannot see the whole tr...