COP26 climate summit opens as ‘best hope’ for tackling global warming

UN climate summit COP26 opens in Glasgow, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries on how to tackle global warming

More than 100 world leaders will attend the start of the summit Monday and Tuesday, known as the high-level segment, including US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

“We need all of the G20 to come forward," said Sharma. "The G20 represents 80 percent of global emissions and that’s why every country matters, but the G20 matters particularly.”At the Vatican on Sunday, Pope Francis appealed to the world's people to pray that world leaders' realise the suffering of the Earth and the poor as the climate warms.

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