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. Kara Hurst, Amazon’s chief sustainability officer, spoke of the challenge of addressing climate change fast enough as communities around the world face the brunt of its impacts. “We really have a limited amount of time with the climate crisis,”

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