United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are jumping into the United Nations climate talks as they get to crunch time.

BELEM, Brazil - Brazil's president was set to meet key negotiators at the COP30 summit on Wednesday as part of a drive to land a deal ahead of schedule on some of the most divisive issues in the global climate talks, including fossil fuels and climate finance. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

About 80 countries at this year's COP30 meeting want the world to develop a fossil fuel phase-out plan - but New Zealand is still considering whether to join them.