COP26 suffers setback with absence of big players | ABC News

Professor Caitlin Byrne from Griffith University says attempts to slow climate change have been dealt a blow by the absence of major polluters like Russia and China from the COP26 meeting in Glasgow.

The meeting follows the G20 meeting in Paris, which ended without a firm plan on keeping the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees — and which also lacked China.

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