World leaders have gathered in Brazil for the start of the UN’s Cop30 climate summit, as the top leaders of the planet’s three biggest polluters – the United States, China and India – stay away from the opening meeting despite warnings that the 1.5C global warming goal is slipping out of reach.
Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opened the summit in Belém on Thursday with a warning against “extremist forces” spreading lies about the climate crisis for political gain.
