Reports say Chinese President Xi Jinping may not attend the UN climate change summit in-person at Glasgow which begins on Sunday. China hasn't officially informed about Xi's participation in the COP26 summit as reports say the country is likely to send vice-environment minister Zhao Yingmin along with climate envoy Xie Zhenhua.

Chinese President Xi may not attend COP26: Report

The city of Glasgow is gearing up to welcome leaders from across the world, journalists and activists as well for the UN climate summit which is scheduled to start from October 31.

COP26 Glasgow: World leaders, activists to attend crucial summit

Plant-based dishes will dominate most of the menu at the Cop26 climate conference. Nearly 80 per cent of the food will be from Scotland. The low-carbon will include 95 per cent British food, especially locally sourced Scottish produce.

Cop26: Plant-based dishes to dominate the menu with 80% Scottish food

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Italian Capital Rome and United Kingdom's Glasgow next week for two crucial summits — the G20 summit and the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference (COP26).

Indian PM Modi to visit Italy and UK next week

The UK president-designate of the Cop26 talks, Alok Sharma, has said that achieving a global climate deal in Glasgow in the next three weeks will be harder than signing the Paris agreement of 2015.

Cop26 climate deal will be harder than Paris accord, says Alok Sharma

Banner-waving climate activists rallied outside the Swiss parliament on Friday in support of a Global Climate Strike that youth movement Fridays for Future had called for ahead of the UN climate summit COP26.

'Fridays for Future': Activists in Bern demand climate strike ahead of COP26

Climate change is an “emerging threat” to the stability of the U.S. financial system, top federal regulators warned in a report Thursday, setting the stage for the Biden administration to take more aggressive regulatory action to prevent climate change from upending global markets and the economy.

US warns climate poses ‘emerging threat’ to financial system

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, said Reuters quoting India's Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav. The climate summit is expected to boost efforts for steeper emissions cut tp tackle global warming.

PM Modi to attend COP26 climate summit in Glasgow: Report

Many countries are lobbying to change a crucial scientific report on how to tackle climate change, a massive leak of documents revealed. According to the document, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Australia are among countries asking the UN to play down the need to move rapidly away from fossil fuels, reports the BBC.

Countries lobbying to reduce climate change goals ahead of COP26, reveal leaked documents

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the COP26 climate summit, the Kremlin has announced that Putin will not be able to fly to Glasgow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend COP26 climate summit

According to the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin won't be attending the UN climate summit or COP26 to be held in Glasgow from October 31. "Unfortunately, Putin will not fly to Glasgow," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

President Putin won't attend COP26 climate summit at Glasgow: Kremlin

Companies that spent millions of pounds to sponsor the Cop26 climate summit have condemned it as “mismanaged” and “very last minute." The sponsors include some of Britain’s biggest companies and they have raised formal complaints blaming “very inexperienced” civil servants for delayed decisions, poor communication and a breakdown in relations between the organisers and firm.

COP26: Sponsors deem the climate summit as ‘mismanaged’ and 'very last minute'

The UK has come up with an ambitious agreement among world leaders at Cop26, which requires them to halt and reverse forest loss and degradation, reveals a report by The Guardian.

COP26: UK to push plan to halt and reverse global deforestation by 2030

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed that he will be attending the crucial COP26 summit in the UK, the confirmation comes after world leaders face mounting pressure over increase in Carbon mission.

Australian PM Scott Morrison to attend COP26 Summit

China has launched a multi-million dollar biodiversity fund for developing countries. The announcement came as president XI Jinping virtually addressed the COP15 biodiversity summit.

China launches its own biodiversity fund; XI Jinping won't attend COP26 summit

After Greta Thunberg, it is now Queen Elizabeth II of England who is tired of world leaders only talking about climate change and not acting on it. The Queen says she finds it "irritating".

COP26: Queen finds world leaders 'irritating' because they only 'talk' and don't 'act'

Chinese President Xi Jinping will snub a crucial climate conference in Scotland, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been told, The Times reported. Britain, which hosts the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, or COP26, in Glasgow on October 31-November 12, is seeking to get big power support for a more radical plan to tackle climate change.

Chinese President Xi Jinping to snub crucial climate conference COP26: Report

Pope Francis warned on Monday warned that the world leaders meeting later this month for a UN climate summit must offer solutions to an "unprecedented ecological crisis.

COP26 must address 'unprecedented' climate crisis, Pope Francis warns

Speaking on Saturday afternoon in Milan, Alok Sharma also said the world's leading economies would deliver on their promise to deliver $100 billion a year to poorer countries struggling to deal with climate change.

COP26 presient calls $100 billion climate finance pledge "vital"

A coalition of feminist groups has recently said that women must be enabled to play a greater role at the Cop26 summit. This is because the needs of women and girls are being overlooked amid the global climate crisis.

Women must play a greater role at the Cop26 summit, say rights groups

According to reports, Chinese President Xi Jinping is yet to confirm his participation in the climate change summit COP26 in Glasgow. UK PM Boris Johnson had said earlier that forcing wealthy nations to honour the UN's climate fund pledge will "be a stretch" as the world seeks to address the issue.

President Xi yet to confirm attendance in Cop26 climate conference

As it prepares to host United Nations' Cop26 climate summit, Glasgow has experienced hottest summer on record, as per the Met Office. In the month of August, Scotland also recorded the highest temperature in the UK.

In run up to Cop26 summit, Glasgow records hottest summer

British COP26 president Alok Sharma described a forthcoming UN report about climate change in stark terms; as offering the international community its clearest warning about the risks of accelerating climate change.

Upcoming UN climate report presents 'starkest warning yet'

UK's COP26 President Alok Sharma said on Friday that the world must act now to slow global warming otherwise there will be a climate catastrophe. He also said that if we do not act now, the science tells us these effects will become more frequent and more brutal, that we will witness a scale of global catastrophe the likes of which the world has not seen.

UK's COP26 Chief says world must act now to avoid climate catastrophe

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