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Leaders of the world’s three biggest polluters — China, the United States and India — are absent from the U.N. climate summit in Brazil this week.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva plans to unveil a multibillion-dollar international fund to compensate countries for preserving tropical rainforests threatened by deforestation.

The summit highlights tensions between climate commitments and economic pressures, as Lula recently approved oil exploration licenses near the Amazon River.

BELEM, Brazil — World leaders descending on the United Nations annual climate summit in Brazil on Thursday will not need to see much more than the view from their airplane window to sense the

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