Leaders discussed the most pressing climate issues—and reasons for hope—ahead of the TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Creating Climate Action in Rio. Global leaders will be gathering this month in Belém, Brazil for COP30, the United Nations climate summit. Jennifer Geerlings-Simons, president of Suriname, was candid about the lack of global progress on limiting warming to the targets laid out in the Paris Agreement. “It looks like we will not be able to achieve the 1.5 degrees, so we have actually