BELEM, Brazil -- Two global power players pushed negotiators on Wednesday to find compromises at United Nations climate talks in Brazil's Belém, where a self-imposed deadline is rushing up fast.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrived at the COP30 talks to take a hand. Lula's tentative schedule included meetings with negotiators for the European Union; emerging nations in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia; and hard-hit small island nations and African countries.

"The arrival of President Lula and Antonio Guterres is hugely significant and suggests the hosts think we should have some kind of deal passed today," said Mohamed Adow of the Kenyan environmental organization Power Shift Africa. "You don't generally have the preside

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