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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of COP30 host Brazil said Thursday that "extremist forces" were condemning future generations to life on a planet forever altered by global warming.
Opening a pre-COP leaders' summit in the Amazonian city of Belem, Lula lashed out at "extremist forces [that] fabricate fake news...to obtain electoral gains and imprison future generations", as he warned that the window to prevent calamitous climate change was "closing rapidly".
Lula pointed to a recent UN report that found Earth will likely be 2.5C warmer by 2100 from pre-industrial levels.
This would claim an estimated 250,000 lives per year and shrink global GDP by almost a third, he told dozens of leaders gathered in Belem.
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