UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday said leaders must confront the "moral failure and deadly negligence" of missing the 1.5C climate target and urgently correct course at the COP30 summit.

Dozens of heads of state and government are in the Brazilian Amazon ahead of next week's UN climate talks that come after scientists confirmed the safer limit of the Paris Agreement would be breached.

"We have failed to ensure we remain below 1.5 degrees", Guterres told the gathering of leaders in the rainforest city of Belem in northern Brazil.

"This is moral failure -- and deadly negligence" but that did not mean all hope was lost, he added.

Major economies are not cutting planet-warming pollution fast enough to avoid dangerous levels of global warming this century, the UN said this week, but cou

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