World leaders convene in Brazil to address climate crisis

• Leaders from China, US, India and Russia are absent from the gathering • UN chief says corporate interests are leading the world to ruin BELEM: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tore into nations for their failure to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, delivering a blistering critique as Brazil hosted world leaders for a summit ahead of the COP30 climate conference. Speaking at a high-level summit, Mr Guterres said that too many political leaders had become “captive&rdquo