BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday warned that "extremist forces" were spreading lies about climate change for political gain, as he urged fellow leaders at a global climate summit in Brazil to take action against global warming.
"We need a roadmap to plan a just way to undo deforestation, overcome fossil fuels and mobilize the resources needed for those aims," Lula told leaders at the summit days before the United Nations' COP30 climate talks begin in the coastal Amazon city of Belem.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric, who spoke after Lula, called out President Donald Trump by name, saying the U.S. leader had lied at the U.N. General Assembly this year when he dismissed climate change as "the greatest con job" in the world.
(Reporting by William JamesEditing by Brad Haynes)
