By Simon Jessop, Oliver Griffin and Marcela Ayres

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -As world leaders gather in Brazil for the COP30 climate talks, the business and finance leaders they are hoping will bankroll the fight against global warming are thousands of miles away on the other side of the country – by design.

Many of the executives who attended recent U.N. climate summits in Baku, Dubai, Sharm el-Sheikh and Glasgow have clustered this week in the business center of Sao Paulo, rather than jockeying for hard-to-find hotel rooms in the smaller Amazonian city of Belem hosting this year’s November 10-21 summit.

With Brazil’s blessing, finance-focused conferences run by third-party hosts have drawn thousands of registrants from around the world.

Most of the two dozen who spoke with Reuters said the

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