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The One Planet - Polar Summit, the first international summit dedicated to glaciers and poles, opens in Paris at the Natural History Museum, as part of the 6th Paris Peace Forum. IMAGES
Guests at the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact settle in for the first working session chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron. IMAGES
The first guests of the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact arrive at the Place de la Bourse in Paris to attend the inaugural session. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at the Palais Brongniart as some forty heads of state and government gather in Paris for the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact in Paris aimed at reshaping the global lending system to better help debt-burdened developing countries cope with climate change and other challenges. IMAGES
COP26 president Alok Sharma announces the opening of the UN's COP27 climate summit, as he handovers the presidency to Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry. Delegates from nearly 200 countries gather in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for the 13-day conference, with leaders arriving Monday and Tuesday. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden on Sunday expressed his disappointment that Russia and China "basically didn't show up in terms of any commitments to deal with climate change" at the G20. SOUNDBITE