World leaders are gathering in Glasgow for this year's climate conference as recent evidence suggests the world is falling behind in its effort to keep the rise in temperature low enough to avoid catastrophe.
But expectations ahead of the crucial summit are low.
The COP26 summit in Scotland opens on Sunday and will run through to November 12 after being postponed by a year due to the global pandemic.
It comes six years after the landmark Paris Agreement which saw more than 190 countries agree to keep the rise in global temperature well below 2°C and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels by reaching peak greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible.
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