The UK’s COP president Alok Sharma has challenged China, India and Saudi Arabia to deliver on G20 promises made months ago, and come up with better formal climate targets ahead of the UN summit in November.
“To all the G20 countries who have not yet stepped forward . . . it is incumbent on them to deliver that enhanced, more ambitious [climate target] before COP,” Sharma said in an interview with the Financial Times.
With just 21 days before the COP26 summit starts in Glasgow, the UK climate chief also singled out Australia, saying he hoped Prime Minister Scott Morrison would attend in person and join the rest of the world’s developed economies by setting a net zero target.