Leaders turn up the heat on fossil fuels at Amazon climate summit

WORLD leaders met for a second day of climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon yesterday after fiery speeches and renewed criticism of Big Oil marked the opening session.

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Dozens of ministers and several heads of state and government, including those of Spain, Germany and Namibia, met in Belem just before the UN's annual two-week conference, COP30, which starts tomorrow.

The past 11 years have been the hottest on record and marked by intensifying hurricanes, heat waves and wildfires. UN chief Antonio Guterres and a series of national leaders said on Thursday that the world would fail to keep global warming below 1.5°C, the Paris Agreement’s primary target set a decade ago, but said they have not yet given up on its fallback goal of 2°C.