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Cop31 live: World leaders to speak at climate crisis summit
Third day of UN talks begin but leaders of many big polluting nations absent National leaders representing just 14% of planet-heating carbon emissions are expected to attend Cop31, by my count. The heads of state or government of the five biggest polluters – China, US, India, Russia and Japan – are not in Turkey as a two-day summit for world leaders gets under way at the UN climate negotiations. Just two of the…
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