COP26: Little time, but ‘mountain to climb’ at UN climate talks

The United Nations climate summit in Glasgow has made some serious toddler steps toward cutting emissions but far from the giant leaps needed to limit global warming to internationally accepted goals, two new analyses and top officials have said.

And time is running out on the two weeks of negotiations.

The president of the climate talks, Alok Sharma, told high-level government ministers at the U.N. conference to reach out to their capitals and bosses soon to see if they can get more ambitious pledges because we have only a few days left.