G20 Summit LIVE UPDATES: Brazil's Lula calls on world leaders to raise climate targets

• “While we are here, our representatives are in Baku negotiating a new goal to have private financing. There is no ambition that can sustain without implementation. In Paris we talked about a hundred billion dollars a year, which the developed world did not meet. Today, we talk about trillions," said Brazilian President Lula.
• “Even if we don't cut down any more trees, the Amazon will continue to be threatened if the rest of the world does not fulfill its mission to contain global warming. The oceans are another important climate regulator and a potential source of solutions. They must also be a priority object of our concerns. In the fight for survival there is no room for denialism and misinformation," he added.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday attacks on Russia's Bryansk region by Ukraine with US missiles was a clear signal that the West wanted to escalate the conflict. "Without the Americans, it is impossible to use these high-tech missiles, as Putin has repeatedly said," Lavrov said. Lavrov said he hoped Moscow's new nuclear doctrine, in which President Vladimir Putin lowered the threshold for a nuclear strike, would be attentively read.

China is willing to deepen strategic communication with France and strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation, President Xi Jinping said in a meeting on Tuesday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, accoridng to state broadcaster CCTV. "China and France are both independent, mature and responsible powers, and the relationship between the two countries is of unique strategic and global significance," Xi said in Brazil, according to CCTV.

Leaders of the world's 20 major economies gathered once again on Tuesday with a lighter schedule after they issued a joint declaration the night before. The document, which includes calls for a global pact to combat hunger, more aid for Gaza and the end of the war in Ukraine, was heavy on generalities and short on specifics. The joint statement was endorsed by group members but fell short of complete unanimity. It also called for a future global tax on billionaires and for reforms allowing the eventual expansion of the U.N. Security Council beyond its five permanent members. At the start of the three-day meeting which formally ends Wednesday, experts doubted Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva could convince the assembled leaders to hammer out any agreement at all in a gathering rife with uncertainty over the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, and heightened global tensions over wars in the Middle East and Ukraine.

During the meeting, the Prime Minister said he took stock of the full range of bilateral ties between the two countries and reaffirmed India's commitment to improving cooperation in sectors like energy, biofuels, defence, agriculture and more.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a bilateral meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on the sidelines of the G20 Summit on Tuesday. While opening the bilateral meeting, President Lula of Brazil told PM Modi that a lot of things that they have tried to do in their G20 have been inspired by the G20 in India. He added that Brazil wanted to reach the level of efficiency in organizing the Summit that India had shown last year, news agency ANI reported citing sources.