China, India Rejections Loom over COP26: FT

China and India cast a pall over the opening of the COP26 summit in Glasgow when they rejected calls to set tough new climate targets, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

The rejections call into question whether the world’s biggest polluters will start cutting emissions this decade.

In a formal submission to the United Nations on Thursday, Beijing left its targets unchanged. India, the world’s third-largest emitter, said it might not submit any new target at all, despite previously indicating that it would.

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