BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazil hosts world leaders for a summit on Thursday ahead of the COP30 climate conference in the rainforest city of Belem.

Here’s what the leaders are saying:

U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES

“We can choose to lead, or be led to ruin.”

“Too many corporations are making record profits from climate devastation, with billions spent on lobbying, deceiving the public and obstructing progress, and too many leaders remain captive to these entrenched interests.”

BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA

“We need a roadmap to plan a just way to undo deforestation, overcome fossil fuels and mobilize the resources needed for those aims.”

“Extremist forces invent untruths for electoral gains and imprison future generations in an outdated model that perpetuate

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