Glasgow | Western leaders at the COP26 summit in Glasgow have tried to salvage support for concerted global action on climate change but the world’s biggest emitter, China, offered nothing new, India nominated 2070 as its net zero emissions target, and other big polluters Brazil and Russia did not show up.
Amid dire warnings of the consequences of ongoing global inaction, summit host and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged his counterparts to at least think about the children and the world they were being bequeathed.
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