Across 25 UN climate conferences since 1995, only twice have more than 110 world leaders joined the fray to confront the spectre of global warming. As they do so again Monday in Glasgow, an unspoken question looms: Copenhagen or Paris?
Will COP26, in other words, more closely resemble the Danish diplomatic debacle of 2009, or the triumph that six years later led to the first climate treaty in which all nations vowed to shrink their carbon footprint and collectively cap Earth's rising temperature?
"It's one minute to midnight and we need to act now," British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was expected to say early Monday. President Xi Jinping of China, the world's largest emitter, has not left his country during the pandemic and there is no indication he will attend.US President Joe Biden, France's Emmanuel Macron, India's Narendra Modi and Australia's Scott Morrison will all be present.POOL/AFP/File | Ludovic MARIN
G20 nations account for 80 percent of global GDP and nearly the same proportion of greenhouse gas emissions.
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