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G20’s climate side-step casts pall over COP26 summit

Glasgow | The failure of leaders from the world’s 20 biggest economies to bolster their climate ambitions has cast a pall over hopes that the COP26 summit in Glasgow can deliver a result this week.

Speaking after the G20 summit in Rome on Sunday (Monday AEDT) issued a communiqué that watered down language on key climate goals, including removing any 2030 or 2050 deadlines, US President Joe Biden branded the outcome “disappointing”.

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Hans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.

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